Andrew Cuomo will collect the tab for Demand for threatened defamation Against a former assistant who accused him of sexual harassment, he touched the position, after the taxpayers disbursed the fry of $ 60 million to defend themselves against their scandals.
The state law does not allow Cuomo any opportunity to follow legal actions against Charlotte Bennett, the accuser whom his lawyers maintain falsely inserted the former governor, his main object of Azzopardi said on Monday.
“The answer is no,” said Azzopardi on whether Cuomo will ask the State to pay for the possible demand.
New York taxpayers still have Cough $ 60 million because Cuomo successful argued That the State must pay its legal costs, since it was defined against a group of scandals behind its administration, since it resigned in disgrace in 2021.
The mass cost includes approximately $ 18 million to defend Cuomo against the demands presented by the previous attendees and state employees, such as Bennett, who insist on sexual harassment.
Cuomo has denied irregularities.
Bennett last week ended his demand against the state of the empire for a $ 450,000 settlementBut Cuomo’s lawyers quickly presented a summons in the Court of Manhattan recruiting their intention to sue it by defamation.
The possible demand inspired the Comptroller of the city Brad Lander, which is also executed in the primaries of the Democratic Mayor’s Office, to hold a press conference near the city that demands that Cuomo clarify if he or the taxpayers will pay it.
“Andrew, will this new defamation suite pay it, or will you try to force taxpayers from the New York State to pay for their additional legal harassment of people who have sexually harassed?” Lander said Monday.
Azzopardi replied that tax dollars were never going to pay for any action.
“New York City is a time for serious leaders with the proven record of achievement to change it, not small extremist ideologues that spend their days beyond in the corners that have conferences where no one appears,” Hey said.
