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Tap Ex-U.S. Attorney, Job-Bias Litigator To Probe Cuomo Raps

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 3/10/21

A former Acting U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who handled several high-profile public-corruption cases and a lawyer who specializes in sex-harassment and other employment-discrimination cases were chosen March 8 by State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate charges that Governor Cuomo harassed as many as five past and present female staffers.

The fifth of those women, who said she was summoned to the Governor's Executive Mansion in Albany late last year on a pretext and accused Mr. Cuomo of then sticking his hand underneath her blouse and fondling her, was revealed by the Albany Times Union the day after Ms. James named ex-U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim and Anne L. Clark to lead the independent investigation into the allegations against Mr. Cuomo.

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