Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo has filed a defamation lawsuit against the accuser of sex houses Charlotte Bennett before Albany could approve a law to hinder such cases aimed at the alleged victims.
Cuomo’s lawsuit, filed at the Supreme Court of Manhattan on Friday, said Bennett and his lawyer, Debra Katz, issued condemnatory statements against former governor candidate converted into suitcases even after Bennett dismissed flying flying against.
“Bennett again published the tweet of his agents, which has obtained more than 90,000 points of view, was false and defamatory, and Bennett let him know very well that he was false and intended to cause damage to Governor Cuomo,” said Cuomo’s demand.
A research report commissioned by the State Attorney General Letitia James He had discovered that Cuomo was dedicated to misconduct against the greatest number of women in Axis 11, including Bennett and a state soldier, but the demand states that the investigation was a demanding work and none of the accusations has heroes in a civil or criminal court.
“Although Bennett seized his federal lawsuit before he was required to admit under oath that he had lied about his interactions with Governor Cuomo, Governor Cuomo intends to clear his name and make sure that Bennett and his agents never repeat the falsification of the falsification and sexually scratched,” according to the lawsuit, which was presented to the lawyers. Glavin
On the same day the demand for Cuomo was filed, it arose that the State He had established a lawsuit that Bennett slapped against New York Affirm that he could not protect her.
The agreement financed by taxpayers was $ 450,000 by a tab of more than $ 9 million disbursed to defend Cuomo and the State against Bennett’s claims.
Cuomo had previously presented a notice that threatened to sue Bennett, and followed.
The demand seemed to be a marked deviation of the comments made in February 2021, when he said: “I never had the intention of offending anyone or causing any damage.
“Now I understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable,” Cuomo said at that time.
“It was involuntary, and I really apologize for it. I feel horrible about it and, frankly, it is ashamed, and that is not easy to say. But that is the truth.”
Another candidate for mayorThe former composition of the city, Scott Stringer, previously filed a demand for defamation against Jean Kim, who worked in his 2001 campaign for the public defender. Stringer said he leveled the accusations of “false” sexual abuse against him.
The legislation propose that the legislation is currently defending in Albany, which aims to make it difficult to be more difficult for accused sex stalkers Sue your alleged victims by defamation.
Profiles Speak Your Truth’s law would require the defendant to pay all the legal expenses of the defendants if they lost their defamation/defamation case.
California has approved this law, and another 15 states are considering it.
The measure proposed in New York, sponsored by state senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D-Manhattan) and the assemblyman Jessica González-Rojas (D-Reens), has been reviewed in the Committee.
A separate bill seeks to protect all the alleged victims of labor discrimination, including the harassment of the label or the demands of defamation after presenting internal complaints about the abuse they are experiencing.
That measure is sponsored by Senate Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Brooklyn) and assemblyman Jo Anne Simon (D-Brooklyn).
“This is a tactic that abusers use their victims over and over again. They are trying to silence the victims,” Gounardes said about such demands.
The senator said that Cuomo’s demand against Bennett is “exactly the type of case against which this bill tries to protect.
“It happened innumerable times before Cuomo and will happen innumerable times after him,” Gounardes said.
His bill approved the state Senate, and the action is pending in the Judicial Committee of the Assembly.
California’s lawyer, Victoria Burke, headed a campaign for the approval of the law in her native state after she informed having been abused of sexuple in 2019 and was advised not to speak publicly due to a possible demand for defamation of reprisals.
“Legal action is not used to win, it is used to silence, to intimidate,” Burke said.
Forcing the plaintiffs to pay the legal fees of “survivors” will discourage such costumes and level the field, he said.
Erica Vladimer, co -founder of the sexual harassment group established by former state legislative employees, said such law against thesis demands is needed.
“Men continue to retaliate against women trying to hold them responsible,” Vladimer said. “The legislation would protect workers who deserve a safe work.”
The Cuomo campaign dismissed the bills as trying to discourage people who have been falsely stained with irregularities to clean their name and not hold false accusers.
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Bennett Initial filed its federal lawsuit in September 2022 against Cuomo, its main lieutenant melissa derosa and two other aid, but but Dropped that case In December, a few days before she was willing to give an affidavit about her statements.
Cuomo said he was framed.
“I said when it starts from the beginning that [the sex lawsuit] It was all political, and that is the way it turned out, “said Cuomo, 67, to the post outside the Baptist Church of Calvary in Jamaica, Queens, Sunday.
“They left me their suuity, so it depended on the State. The State made an agreement, which was basically establishing an annoying suit, sometimes it [costs] More to litigate to settle. But everything was political, “he said.
Stringer’s campaign declined to comment on the legislation.
Bennett’s camp did not respond to a comment request.
