Human Rights Campaign staff reportedly revolts over boss’ ties to Cuomo scandal

Staff at the Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ rights advocacy group, appear to be on the brink of a mutiny after they discovered their top boss was involved with Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s sexual harassment scandal, reports said Thursday.

HRC President Alphonso David was excoriated for nearly an hour and a half during a staff meeting Wednesday after employees learned he had a direct role in attempting to discredit a Cuomo accuser while employed with the human rights group, the Huffington Post reported. Attorney General Letitia James’ blockbuster report detailing the state’s probe into Cuomo’s pattern of sexual harassment showed that David, Cuomo’s counsel between 2015 and 2019, gave a copy of Lindsey Boylan’s confidential personnel file to top aide Melissa DeRosa after he stopped working for the governor and joined HRC.