A Cuomo spokesman said the Justice Department's Civil Division is looking into the sexual harassment allegations against the former New York governor.
Despite previously saying he trusted James to lead the probe into the claims against him, Cuomo has since turned on the attorney general. He accused the report of being"designed to be a political firecracker on an explosive topic." He has also continued to deny any wrongdoing.
In October, James announced she would run for governor in 2022, when Cuomo was expected to run for reelection. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is reportedly being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice over sexual harassment accusations, which led to his resignation. Above, Cuomo holds a press conference on July 14.Back in the spring, federal investigators launched a preliminary investigation and interviewed several people in relation to the Cuomo administration's response to the pandemic, specifically its cover-up of the total number of nursing home deaths from COVID-19.
The governor's office became the subject of the DOJ probe after one of his top aides privately acknowledged to state lawmakers that they had obscured the real figures out of fear that the Trump administration would use the numbers against the Democrat. The investigation came after James released a separate report that found the state health department underreported the death toll by as much as 50 percent.
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