The female aide who’s accused Gov. Andrew Cuomo of groping her has revealed her identity as part of an interview in which she discusses the incident — which is now the subject of a criminal investigation.
Brittany Commisso told “CBS This Morning” and the Albany Times Union that she filed a complaint against Cuomo because “it was the right thing to do,” according to an excerpt released Sunday morning.
After reports that the Hollywood women’s organization, Time’s Up, advised disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on a letter intended to discredit a former staffer who has accused him of sexual harassment, stars associated with the group have stayed largely quiet.
The New York attorney general’s damning report portrays Governor Andrew Cuomo as not only a sexual harasser but a misappropriator of state resources.
The saga of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s downfall attracts prurient interest. But strip away the supposedly titillating details—which weren’t so titillating to the near-dozen women who allegedly experienced them—of New York Attorney General Letitia James’s 168-page investigative document into Cuomo’s workplace behavior, and you get not just sexual harassment, which is bad enough, but something just as unacceptable: garden-variety public corruption, including misappropriation of state resources. As the state legislature impeaches Cuomo, lawmakers shouldn’t leave this part out. Abusing taxpayer resources is an important sin, too.
Almost 60 percent of New Yorkers say Gov. Andrew Cuomo should step down in the wake of Attorney General Letitia James’ independent sexual harassment probe that found he broke state and federal laws, a new poll found.
The survey, taken Tuesday evening, showed 59 percent of New York State residents — and 52 percent of registered Democrats — believe the embattled governor should resign.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo violated federal and state laws by sexually harassing multiple women — including current and former state employees — through actions that included touching their “intimate body parts” without consent, officials said Tuesday.
Cuomo also allegedly retaliated against some of the victims and created a “toxic” and hostile work environment in the Executive Chamber, officials said.
NY AG LETITIA JAMES: "The independent investigation has concluded that Governor Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple women and in doing so violated Federal and State law.”
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) August 3, 2021
The self-appointed guardian of Islamic civil rights faces allegations of abuse and omerta
The Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) presents itself as a protector of civil rights; the guardian of America’s Muslim community. Its vision, it claims, is “to be a leading advocate for justice and… to enhance understanding of Islam, protect civil rights, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.”
But behind this seemingly noble mission lies another more political, and at times sinister, agenda.
Disgraced former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein can be extradited from New York to California to face rape and sexual assault charges, a judge in Buffalo ruled on Tuesday.
In March 2020, the film producer was sentenced to 23 years in prison after being convicted in New York of rape and sexual assault in a case that sparked the #MeToo movement.
Opposition Leader Erin O’Toole learned of a rumour about ex-top soldier Jonathan Vance from a fellow military member, who heard it “from a third party,” O’Toole’s office told the Star Monday.
It was the first time O’Toole said how he came to learn of a rumour that he passed on to the Prime Minister’s Office for investigation in July 2015, when O’Toole was Veterans Affairs Minister and the Conservatives had named Vance to become the next chief of the defence staff.
O’Toole learned of the rumour at some point after the government announced Vance’s appointment in April 2015. The rumour was about Vance having had an inappropriate relationship with an officer and/or improperly sought to further her career while stationed at CFB Gagetown around 2001.
TORONTO — Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, the public face of Canada’s vaccine rollout since November, is facing a sexual misconduct claim against him that dates back more than 30 years, CTV News has learned.
Sources tell CTV News that military police received a formal complaint against Fortin in March, alleging a “historical sexual assault.” The incident, sources say, allegedly dates back 32 years to early 1989, when Fortin was a student at the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Que.
The major-general leading Canada’s vaccine logistics at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is stepping down under the cloud of a military investigation into a sexual misconduct allegation.
The Department of National Defence issued a terse three-line statement late Friday, saying that Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin is leaving his post and his future will be decided by the acting chief of the defence staff.
Neither the military, nor the department would say what kind of investigation has been launched, whether it involves military police, or if it is some other kind of internal review.
Same guy 24 hours previous…
“In a 20-year career, I have put inclusivity and diversity at the forefront of my work and never had a complaint made against me. If anyone who has worked with me has ever felt uncomfortable or disrespected, I sincerely apologise. I vehemently deny any sexual misconduct or wrongdoing and intend to defend myself against these false allegations,” he said.
Not 1 or 3 or 6 but 20 women have come forward so far.
Members of a private Facebook group for military police have been mocking testimony made by the woman at the heart of allegations of inappropriate behaviour by Gen. Jonathan Vance.
The aspersions targeting Maj. Kellie Brennan come after she appeared before a parliamentary committee probing high-level sexual misconduct in the Canadian Forces and said she does not believe military police will take the investigation into her allegations seriously.
Brennan testified during that committee that Vance was the father of two of her children.
Sajjan announces review of military sexual misconduct, plans for independent reporting system
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is launching an independent, external review into sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces led by former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour.
The review will centre around providing recommendations to set up an independent reporting system so that military members can share allegations of sexual misconduct outside of the military chain of command — a key request by victims and survivors who say they have for too long faced reprisals for coming forward.
When he was 24 years old, Colten Skibinsky was sexually assaulted in the showers of a military base.
Although he didn’t call it that back in 2013, when he says two fellow male soldiers came into his shower stall at CFB Borden, one attacking him while the other stood nearby.
“I don’t like admitting it and I always say ‘Oh, I wasn’t raped,’ but that might be a bit of male bravado,” said Skibinsky in an interview with the Star, speaking publicly for the first time about his experience as a male survivor of sexual violence in the Canadian armed forces.
He just experienced it differently.
Rape, sexual harassment, and child abuse in the Sharia states-within-a-state.
First, Ahmad Saleem, a community organizer for CAIR in Florida, was busted after showing up to molest what he thought was a 12-year-old girl he had met over the internet. When Ahmad showed up in a car with a plate, “Invest in Children”, the cops were waiting for him instead.
The son of Pakistani immigrants had headed up the local Muslim Students Association at the University of Central Florida before moving up the ranks at CAIR. Then it was off to prison.
Over half of New York voters have an unfavorable view of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo for the first time, and 44% believe he is guilty of sexual harassment allegations against him, according to a Monday Sienna College poll.
