This “imply lady” is loyal — to a fault.
Melissa DeRosa, ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s prime aide, lashed out at his accusers in a vicious tweet Thursday night time that she later deleted.
“about these ‘victims’…aka witness tamperers & self-described ‘Cuomo’s Hoes,'” she wrote, linking to a information report on the newest launch of testimony within the investigation of her former boss by Legal professional Normal Letitia James’ workplace.
DeRosa — who’s caught by Cuomo since he was compelled to resign over a sexual harassment scandal — testified throughout a probe into the allegations that she heard him confer with her and several other different aides because the “imply ladies” in his workplace.
Final yr, The Put up completely revealed that DeRosa was recorded secretly admitting to Democratic lawmakers that Cuomo’s administration lined up the nursing residence dying toll from COVID-19 out of concern it will be “be used in opposition to us” by federal prosecutors.
Her Thursday night time Twitter assault adopted the newest launch of proof from the probe that led James to accuse Cuomo of sexually harassing 11 girls, together with 9 present or former state workers.
DeRosa included a hyperlink to an Albany Instances Union report that mentioned 4 feminine Cuomo aides — together with Brittany Commisso, who’s accused him of groping her in December 2020 — allegedly engaged in a bunch textual content chat named “Cuomo’s Hoes.”
That assertion got here from the ex-husband of 1 girl, who informed investigators, “I don’t have proof of this.”
DeRosa’s “witness tamperers” comment appeared aimed toward former state financial improvement official Lindsey Boylan, whose allegations in opposition to Cuomo sparked his intercourse harassment scandal.
Final week, Cuomo lawyer Rita Glavin alleged that James “had proof that Ms. Boylan was tampering with a witness” when she despatched an encrypted, self-destructing textual content message that “threatened” Empire State Growth CEO Howard Zemsky.
Boylan’s lawyer responded by accusing Cuomo and Glavin of “persevering with their smear marketing campaign of Ms. Boylan to punish her for being the primary of a number of girls to show the governor’s misconduct.”
Throughout an interview broadcast Thursday on Albany public radio community WAMC, Glavin was requested if Cuomo — who denies any wrongdoing — deliberate to sue any of his accusers for alleged defamation.
“I’ll inform you this: The governor has requested me to have a look at all of his authorized choices and I’m doing that proper now,” she mentioned.
“And I don’t need to get forward of myself, however this has been terribly, terribly irritating.”
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