The 165-page report into sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo, commissioned by state Attorney General Letitia James and compiled by independent investigators, mentions DeRosa’s name a whopping 187 times, including footnotes.
1 on Cuomo’s staff.ĭeRosa and other Cuomo administration officials reportedly didn’t report Charlotte Bennett’s sexual harassment complaint immediately. The daughter of leading Albany lobbyist Giorgio DeRosa, she was promoted in 2017 to secretary to the governor, making her the first woman to hold the powerful position, which officially ranks her No. The Cuomo consigliere also pressured at least one former staffer to “surreptitiously record” a phone call with a government aide in the hopes of finding out what dirt she potentially had on the governor, the report alleges.ĭeRosa, 38, was hired by Cuomo in 2013, after earlier jobs as acting chief of staff for since-disgraced ex-Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and as the state director of the advocacy group Organizing for America. The scathing official report confirming the three-term Democrat Cuomo’s potentially criminal behavior states that DeRosa played a key role in leaking the personnel file of one accuser in an attempt to discredit her - something Attorney General Letitia James’ independent probers found amounted to unlawful retaliation. Andrew Cuomo - allegedly helped try to bury the sexual harassment allegations against her boss. The soon-to-be president said that Kelly "really bombed" the interview and that she seemed like she had " blood coming out of her wherever." Over the next year, Trump's attacks on Kelly got so bad that Fox News made a statement saying that the presidential candidate had an "extreme, sick obsession" with Kelly that was "beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate.New details have emerged about how Melissa DeRosa - a top aide and trusted confidante to Gov. Kelly's straightforward questions upset Trump, who began bullying the Fox News anchor on Twitter. The feud with Trump started when Kelly, known for her no holds barred interview style, asked the candidate about his history of denigrating women. In 2015, the Fox News star broke out of the conservative media silo and became a household name because of a feud with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
For example, in 2013, on her Fox News show " The Kelly File," she claimed that Santa Claus and Jesus were white. Unlike many journalists, The New York Times noted that Kelly became part of a news story, often overshadowing the topics she was reporting.
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