{"id":54460,"date":"2021-03-01T08:58:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54460"},"modified":"2021-03-01T08:58:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T12:58:18","slug":"floundering-cuomo-finally-gives-in-to-the-appointment-of-an-independent-special-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54460","title":{"rendered":"Floundering Cuomo finally gives in to the appointment of an independent special investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Cuomo reverses course, calls for special investigator amid sexual harassment allegations<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->BY CAROLINE LINTON<br \/>\nCBS News<\/p>\n<p>Facing mounting political pressure over allegations of sexual harassment,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/andrew-cuomo-sexual-harassment-accusation-2nd-former-aide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">New York Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a><\/span>\u00a0said Sunday that he would support the appointment of an independent special investigator to examine the claims against him. Cuomo also issued a number of statements on Sunday, including one in the evening apologizing and saying he &#8220;never intended to offend anyone or cause any harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo, a Democrat, initially called on the state attorney general and the chief judge of the New York State Court of Appeals to jointly appoint &#8220;an independent and qualified lawyer&#8221; to &#8220;conduct a thorough review of the matter and issue a public report.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After he backtracked on his initial request for the investigation, Attorney General Letitia James issued a statement that her office will &#8220;will hire a law firm, deputize them as attorneys of our office, and oversee a rigorous and independent investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ny-gov-cuomo-responds-to-sexual-harassment-allegations\/\">https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ny-gov-cuomo-responds-to-sexual-harassment-allegations\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuomo reverses course, calls for special investigator amid sexual harassment allegations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}