{"id":55914,"date":"2021-03-14T04:51:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T08:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=55914"},"modified":"2021-03-14T04:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T08:52:23","slug":"casanovagate-the-list-of-victims-just-keep-getting-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=55914","title":{"rendered":"CASANOVAgate: The List of Victims Just Keep Getting Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Ex-Albany reporter Jessica Bakeman is 7th woman to accuse Gov. Cuomo of sexual harassment<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Lia Eustachewich<br \/>\nNew York Post<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"348\" width=\"618\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224153001\/6aIMRO3kiI_default\/index.html?videoId=6239747960001\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A former Albany statehouse reporter is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/12\/ex-cuomo-staffer-says-he-verbally-mentally-abused-her\/\">now the seventh woman<\/a>\u00a0to publicly accuse Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment \u2014 detailing on Friday instances of unwanted touching and humiliating comments she endured while covering his administration.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica Bakeman says she was sexually harassed by Cuomo several times since the start of her journalism career in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In a first-person piece\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/article\/andrew-cuomo-sexual-harassment-albany-reporter.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for New York Magazine<\/a>, she described a 2014 holiday party in which the governor gripped her tightly as she went to say goodbye for the night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took my hand, as if to shake it, then refused to let go,\u201d Bakeman wrote. \u201cHe put his other arm around my back, his hand on my waist, and held me firmly in place while indicating to a photographer he wanted us to pose for a picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img class=\"wp-image-17545964 lazyloaded\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" alt=\"Former Albany reporter and Cuomo accuser Jessica Bakeman.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-andrew-cuomo.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Former Albany reporter Jessica Bakeman is the seventh woman to accuse Gov. Andrew Cuomo of sexual harassment.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Provided by Jessica Bakeman; Reuters<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bakeman, who was 25 at the time and working for what is now Politico New York, said red flags went up, given her \u201cjob was to analyze and scrutinize him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want a photo of him with his hands on my body and a smile on my face,\u201d she wrote. \u201cBut I made the reflexive assessment that most women and marginalized people know instinctively, the calculation about risk and power and self-preservation. I knew it would be far easier to smile for the brief moment it takes to snap a picture than to challenge one of the most powerful men in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img class=\"wp-image-17546007 lazyloaded\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" alt=\"Albany reporter Jessica Bakeman\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Jessica Bakeman says she was sexually harassed by Cuomo several times since the start of her journalism career in 2012.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">courtesy: Jessica Bakeman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Months into her professional career, Bakeman alleged Cuomo slid his arm around her shoulders while he told stories with her male colleagues at a party at the Executive Mansion for an outgoing communications aide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe left it there, and kept me pinned next to him, for several minutes as he finished telling his story,\u201d she recalled of the alleged 2012 incident, when she worked for USA Today. \u201cI stood there, my cheeks hot, giggling nervously as my male colleagues did the same. We all knew it was wrong, but we did nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\">\n<div id=\"slideshow-17544592-1\" class=\"slideshow-container slideshow-initialized\">\n<div class=\"slides-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"slide slide-active\">\n<div class=\"slide-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cuomo-albany.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) calc(100vw - 170px), (max-width: 1280px) 66vw, (max-width: 1440px) 74vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cuomo-albany.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cuomo-albany.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cuomo-albany.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=915 915w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cuomo-albany.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=642 642w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cuomo-albany.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=607 607w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cuomo-albany.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=453 453w,https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/cuomo-albany.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=568 568w\" alt=\"cuomo albany\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"next-slideshow-expander\">Gov. Andrew Cuomo walks with one of his daughters on the grounds of the Governor&#8217;s Mansion in Albany on March 12, 2021.\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the ensuing years, Cuomo \u201cnever let me forget I was a woman,\u201d Bakeman continued, saying that he once mocked her for having a purple phone \u2014 instead of answering her question during a press gaggle \u2014 and humiliated her again in 2014, when she shouted over her male colleague, Ken Lovett, a former Post Albany reporter then working for the Daily News, at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I just enjoy how you shut up Ken Lovett, to tell you the truth,&#8217;\u201d Cuomo told her at the time, Bakeman wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cCuomo seemed to think the fact that I had the audacity to speak over a man was hilarious. With him, these exchanges were always meant to be a public humiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img class=\"wp-image-17546041 lazyloaded\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" alt=\"Jessica Bakeman, a reporter at WLRN, who used to cover Andrew Cuomo. She is the latest woman to speak up against the governor and allege inappropriate behavior.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/jessica-bakeman-36.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Jessica Bakeman, a reporter at WLRN, who used to cover Andrew Cuomo. She is the latest woman to speak up against the governor and allege inappropriate behavior.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Bakeman said she knew Cuomo never wanted to have sex with her.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, \u201cit was about power,\u201d she wrote. \u201cHe wanted me to know that he could take my dignity away at any moment with an inappropriate comment or a hand on my waist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reporter, who now works in Florida, said there\u2019s a marked difference between how Cuomo treats her male colleagues.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-related alignright\">\n<div id=\"more-on\" class=\"module--see-also box module inline related desktop\">\n<div class=\"module-title inline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"module-wrapper \">\n<article class=\"story-photo-box oversize-headline\">\n<div class=\"headline-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"headline-container\">\n<h3 class=\"postid-17544230 headline\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe way he bullies and demeans women is different,\u201d she said. \u201cHe uses touching and sexual innuendo to stoke fear in us. That is the textbook definition of sexual harassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three-term Democrat is facing mounting calls from his own Democratic colleagues to resign from office over the series of sexual misconduct allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The matter will be investigated by New York Attorney General Letitia James, while the state Assembly on Thursday approved a probe into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/11\/nys-assembly-speaker-lays-groundwork-for-possible-cuomo-impeachment\/\">potential impeachment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cuomo has vehemently denied the allegations \u2014 and has so far\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/12\/gov-cuomo-refuses-to-resign-over-sexual-harassment-scandal\/\">refused to step down\u00a0<\/a>over what he deems \u201ccancel culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/12\/ex-albany-reporter-is-7th-woman-to-accuse-gov-cuomo-of-sex-harassment\/\">https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/03\/12\/ex-albany-reporter-is-7th-woman-to-accuse-gov-cuomo-of-sex-harassment\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-Albany reporter Jessica Bakeman is 7th woman to accuse Gov. 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