Prosecutor Won’t Charge Cuomo Over Trooper’s Sexual Harassment Claim
The New York Times
The acting Nassau County district attorney said the allegations were “credible” and “deeply troubling” but not criminal under New York law.
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will not face criminal charges over a female state trooper’s accusation that he touched her inappropriately when she was protecting him during a 2019 event at Belmont Park racetrack, a Long Island prosecutor said on Thursday.
The prosecutor, Joyce Smith, Nassau County’s acting district attorney, said in a statement that an “exhaustive investigation” into the trooper’s allegations — which first surfaced in a damning report by New York’s attorney general — had found them to be “credible, deeply troubling, but not criminal under New York law.”
A lawyer who has represented the trooper did not immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did the union that represents New York State troopers.
