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   The findings, released after an eight-month inquiry into former   
   Gov. Andrew Cuomo, reinforced a damning investigation by the New   
   York attorney general.   
      
   An eight-month investigation by the New York State Assembly   
   found “overwhelming evidence” that former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo   
   engaged in sexual harassment while in office, corroborating a   
   damning investigation by the state attorney general that Mr.   
   Cuomo has repeatedly tried to discredit.   
      
   The investigation also found that Mr. Cuomo abused his power to   
   help produce what would become a $5.1 million pandemic memoir,   
   providing new details about just how much of the governor’s   
   staff was used to help him write, publish and promote his book.   
      
   The Assembly inquiry was meant to create a road map for   
   potential impeachment proceedings against Mr. Cuomo, a three-   
   term governor whose unrelenting style of leadership engendered   
   varying amounts of fear, respect and animus. But that prospect   
   was rendered moot after he resigned in disgrace in August, a   
   week after the release of the attorney general’s report, which   
   concluded that he had sexually harassed 11 women.   
      
   After Mr. Cuomo stepped down, Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly   
   speaker and a longtime ally of Mr. Cuomo’s, moved to suspend the   
   Assembly investigation, contending that lawmakers lacked the   
   constitutional authority to impeach an official no longer in   
   office.   
      
   But Mr. Heastie reversed course after facing an immediate   
   bipartisan backlash from lawmakers who argued that the Assembly   
   should, at minimum, finish the taxpayer-funded investigation and   
   make public its findings.   
      
   The result was a 46-page report released on Monday that went   
   beyond the sexual harassment accusations, further damaging Mr.   
   Cuomo’s legacy and his continued attempts — fueled by $18   
   million in unspent campaign funds — to preserve it.   
      
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   Read the New York State Assembly Report on Andrew Cuomo’s   
   Impeachment Investigation   
   A 46-page report on Andrew M. Cuomo released on Monday by the   
   New York State Assembly Judiciary Committee found “overwhelming   
   evidence that the former governor engaged in sexual harassment.”   
   It also found that Mr. Cuomo used state workers to produce his   
   memoir, a likely violation of state ethics laws.   
      
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   Investigators hired by the Assembly Judiciary Committee   
   concluded that Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, used state workers and   
   other public resources to write, publish and promote his memoir   
   about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, a likely   
   violation of state ethics laws.   
      
   The inquiry also found that Mr. Cuomo “was not fully transparent   
   regarding the number of nursing home residents who died as a   
   result of Covid-19.” The Cuomo administration became engulfed in   
   scandal last year following reports that the state was   
   undercounting coronavirus deaths in nursing homes, after the   
   governor issued a directive requiring facilities to accept Covid-   
   19 patients.   
      
   The findings of the investigation had led one committee member   
   to say last week that it would be “reasonable” to infer a   
   connection between Mr. Cuomo’s $5.1 million book deal and his   
   administration’s decision to manipulate nursing home death data.   
      
   The report makes multiple references to investigators sharing   
   some of the evidence with law enforcement officials, suggesting   
   that there may be further legal repercussions for Mr. Cuomo,   
   whose family — his father, Mario M. Cuomo, was also elected to   
   three terms as governor — ruled New York for two decades.   
      
   Mr. Cuomo has maintained that the attorney general, Letitia   
   James, who is now running for governor, had compromised her   
   inquiry with her own political ambitions. He extended that   
   posture on Monday to include the Assembly investigation.   
      
   “The Assembly’s report simply parrots the attorney general’s   
   flawed report, failing to engage with the many errors and   
   omissions in the A.G.’s report and her one-sided, biased   
   investigation,” said Rita Glavin, Mr. Cuomo’s lawyer.   
      
   “And, like the A.G., the Assembly refused to provide the former   
   governor with access to all the evidence, again denying the   
   governor due process and a meaningful ability to respond,” she   
   continued. “This is disappointing, but hardly surprising.”   
      
   Though Mr. Cuomo’s team has repeatedly sought to discredit the   
   allegations, the attacks may be even less effective when   
   directed at the Assembly, whose Democratic leadership had served   
   as a kind of firewall for Mr. Cuomo.   
      
      
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