“I was so confused and shocked and embarrassed,” one of Cuomo's accusers, Anna Ruch, 33, told The New York Times. “I turned my head away and didn’t have words in that moment.” Ruch said Cuomo, 63, made an unwanted advance at a New York City wedding in September 2019, placing his hand on her lower back, which was exposed. When she removed his hand, she said, Cuomo grabbed her face with both hands and asked if he could kiss her before she pulled away.
Former aide Charlotte Bennett, 25, told The Times: “I understood that the governor wanted to sleep with me, and felt horribly uncomfortable and scared. And was wondering how I was going to get out of it and assumed it was the end of my job.” Bennett said Cuomo made her uncomfortable with questions about her sex life and whether she would consider dating an older man.
Former aide Lindsey Boylan wrote in a post on Medium that after she was summoned to a meeting with the governor, "as the black wrought-iron elevator took me to the second floor, I called my husband. I told him I was afraid of what might happen." Boylan, 36, first made the allegations on Twitter in December, but the story gained little national attention. She said that on one occasion, the governor asked her if she wanted to play "strip poker" while they were traveling on a state-owned plane, and on another, he gave her an unwanted kiss on the lips as she was leaving his office.
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