Governor Andrew Cuomo has formally been accused of sexually harassing eleven women by New York's Attorney General in a stunning string of allegations.
AG Letitia James claimed the embattled Empire State lawmaker was behind a concerted campaign of unwanted comments and touching spanning from 2013 to 2020, in a series of statements delivered Tuesday.
Cuomo was first accused of sexual misconduct last year, but Tuesday's press conference named several new victims, and also detailed Cuomo's nine previous accusers, whose testimony investigators said they found compelling.
The governor has furiously denied impropriety and refused to resign.
Here we take a detailed look at the women whose claims have triggered the biggest crisis of Cuomo's three-term career:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (pictured) has formally been accused of sexually harassing eleven women by New York's Attorney general in a stunning string of allegations
State Trooper #1
Cuomo is accused of sexually harassed a state trooper, referred to in the report as Trooper #1, who he hired onto his protective detail, bending the three-year experience requirement.
Once she was on his team, he allegedly harassed her on a number of occasions, including one where he ran his hand across her stomach from her belly button to her right hip while she was holding the door open for him at an event.
'I felt...completely violated because to me...that's between my chest and my privates,' the trooper said, according to Business Insider. 'But, you know, I'm here to do a job.'
He also ran is accused 'running his finger down her back' while they were in an elevator together and saying 'hey you', and kissing her on the cheek in front of another trooper.
'I remember just freezing, being—in the back of my head, I'm like, oh, how do I say no politely because in my head if I said no, he's going to take it out on the detail. And now I'm on the bad list,' the trooper shared.
Cuomo also allegedly asked her to help him find a girlfriend and said he wanted someone who 'liked pain', and asked her why she wanted to get married, saying 'your sex drive goes down'.
'Trooper #1 found these interactions with the Governor not only offensive and uncomfortable, but markedly different from the way the Governor interacted with members of the PSU who were men, and she conveyed these incidents contemporaneously to colleagues,' the report reads.
The trooper said she was afraid of being retaliated against if she were to speak out against the behavior.
Another unnamed 'state entity employee'
The unidentified employee said she attended an event with Cuomo in September 2019.
After giving a speech, Cuomo is said to have posed for pictures with her. While the picture was being taken, he 'grabbed her butt'.
'The employee was shocked and discussed it with a number of friends, family and co-workers,' the report says.
She also 'memorialized the Governor's inappropriate touching' contemporaneously, but the report doesn't say how.
Doctor Elizabeth Dufort, named as State Entity Employee #2
A doctor says she was sexually harassed while administering a televised COVID-19 test to Cuomo.
The doctor who administered a COVID-19 test to Cuomo she was sexually harassed during the incident.
On May 17, 2020 Cuomo told Dr. Elizabeth Dufort, in front of cameras 'nice to see you doctor, you make that gown look good'.
Dufort, who appeared in full PPE gear, did not respond to his comment.
Cuomo (left) is accused of sexually harassing Dr. Elizabeth Dufort (right) while she administered him a COVID-19 test in front of cameras
Cuomo (left) allegedly made comments towards Dufort (right) that were sexual in nature. He said: 'Nice to see you doctor, you make that gown look good'
The report also claims that before the test, Cuomo asked her not to swab him so hard that it 'hit his brain'.
She replied that she'd be 'gentle but accurate' and he said 'I've heard that before,' which the doctor said was 'implied in a sexual nature'.
Dufort considered the interaction to be sexual harassment and investigators agreed.
'Executive Assistant One'
Cuomo is accused of groping an executive assistant, whose identity remains anonymous, at an event last November after routinely engaging in a pattern of impropriate conduct that began in late 2019.
The report says Cuomo repeatedly sexually harassed 'Executive Assistant One' when she worked for him by subjecting her to 'close and intimate hugs', 'kisses on the cheeks and forehead', 'at least one kiss on the lips' and 'touching her butt'.
He allegedly referred to her and one other assistant as 'mingle mamas' and asked her repeatedly if she would ever cheat on her husband.
In November 2020, he allegedly groped her breast at the Executive Mansion in Albany.
'For over three months, Executive Assistant #1 kept this groping incident to herself and planned to take it 'to the grave,' but found herself becoming emotional (in a way that was visible to her colleagues in the Executive Chamber) while watching the Governor state, at a press conference on March 3, 2021, that he had never 'touched anyone inappropriately.' She then confided in certain of her colleagues, who in turn reported her allegations to senior staff in the Executive Chamber,' the report says.
The assistant was summoned to the mansion under the pretext of having to assist Cuomo with a technical issue involving his phone, the Times Union reported in March.
The two were alone together on the
