Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aide during the onset of the pandemic and the sexual harassment scandal that forced Cuomo from office in 2021 has written a memoir.
FILE - Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa listens as then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters during a news conference, Sept. 14, 2018, in New York. Cuomo's inner circle began readying a possible campaign in 2022 to reclaim the office he resigned from during a sexual harassment scandal, but he didn't want to subject his daughters to another run, DeRosa, his former top aide, says in a book to be released Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. – Former New York Gov.
DeRosa said Cuomo “could not stomach” how state government was being run after his resignation. But despite support from relatives and aides willing to come out with “guns blazing,” she wrote, Cuomo considered how a run would impact his three daughters, who had clearly “had enough of the press and the ugly politics.”Hochul wound up winning the election, defeating Republican Lee Zeldin.
DeRosa is particularly critical of state Attorney General Letitia James, the Democrat who released a report, crafted by outside lawyers, which concluded Cuomo had sexually harassed 11 women. Cuomo. In one passage, DeRosa claimed James initially tried to reassure her about the investigation, saying people had described a key accuser as “not credible.”
— Cuomo had a complicated, wary relationship with then-President Donald Trump. DeRosa said she would sometimes try to lobby the administration through Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. Sometimes those exchanges would get testy. Early in the pandemic when much of the economy was still shut down, DeRosa spoke to Kushner in hopes the president would soften his rhetoric about reopening.
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