Governor Cuomo, already reeling from his questionable approval of a policy that returned elderly patients who had been treated in hospitals for the coronavirus to their nursing homes, found his image as the King of Albany further battered last week when two former aides accused him of sexually harassing them.
He responded to the most-provocative charge by Lindsey Boylan, his former Deputy Secretary for Economic Development—that during an October 2017 plane ride following a trip to Western New York, he had said to her, "Let's play strip poker"—by having four past and present aides release a statement saying, "We were on each of these October flights, and this conversation did not happen."
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