{"id":177968,"date":"2025-08-26T20:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177968\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T20:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:53:19","slug":"judge-says-cuomo-cant-prolong-court-battle-with-accuser-to-resurrect-his-public-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/177968\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge says Cuomo can’t prolong court battle with accuser to ‘resurrect his public image’"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBANY, N.Y.<\/strong> \u2013 A judge rejected former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s attempt to prolong a taxpayer-funded court battle<\/a> with a woman who accused him of sexual assault, saying it wasn\u2019t in the public\u2019s interest to keep litigating for the purpose of repairing the Democrat\u2019s reputation as he runs for mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuomo has not advanced any viable argument for why the taxpayers of this state should continue to foot the bill for his continued use of civil litigation discovery devices to further his efforts to resurrect his public image,\u201d state Supreme Court Justice Denise Hartman wrote in a decision posted online Monday.<\/p>\n

The decision comes more than a month after New York agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a lawsuit from Brittany Commisso, an ex-aide who alleged Cuomo sexually harassed and groped her while he was in office. Cuomo, who has denied the allegations, resigned as governor in 2021<\/a> after a report from the state attorney general determined that he had sexually harassed at least 11 women.<\/p>\n

Cuomo, a co-defendant with the state, opposed Commisso’s request to discontinue the lawsuit. Relatedly, he sought to make public text messages produced under discovery he claims refute Commisso’s allegations. Cuomo attorney Rita Glavin had told a judge that potentially ending the case is a matter of \u201cenormous public interest\u201d as Cuomo runs for mayor.<\/p>\n

Hartman allowed Commisso to drop the civil suit and denied Cuomo’s motion on the texts.<\/p>\n

Cuomo is running for mayor as a independent after losing the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani<\/a> by more than 12 percentage points. <\/p>\n

With the race heating up this summer, Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa has needled Cuomo over the sexual harassment allegations. And incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who also is running as an independent, recently placed whistles on reporters’ chairs at a news conference. Adams explained they were for female reporters interviewing Cuomo, in case they needed to call for help.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Cuomo said Tuesday that the public deserves to see what is in the texts. <\/p>\n

“Governor Cuomo will continue to fight for the release of all the evidence because it shows he didn\u2019t sexually harass anyone and further discredits the AG\u2019s political report. Release the evidence and let the public decide,\u201d Rich Azzopardi said in a written statement.<\/p>\n

Commisso filed her lawsuit in late 2023, just before the expiration of the Adult Survivors Act<\/a>, a law that created a yearlong suspension of the usual time limit to sue over an alleged sexual assault. She later filed a criminal complaint accusing Cuomo of groping her but a local district attorney declined to prosecute, citing lack of sufficient evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press typically doesn\u2019t identify people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they decide to tell their stories publicly, as Commisso has done. <\/p>\n

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2013 A judge rejected former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s attempt to prolong a taxpayer-funded court…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":177969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,100823,5340,100821,5289,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,83940,100822,61,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-177968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-brittany-commisso","11":"tag-curtis-sliwa","12":"tag-denise-hartman","13":"tag-eric-adams","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-rich-azzopardi","21":"tag-rita-glavin","22":"tag-u-s-news","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-usa","29":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115097056263491095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}