Lawyer for Cuomo accusers says the N.Y. Gov. is interfering in AG probe

March 22, 2021 KayAdmin US 0

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at Grace Baptist Church, a new pop-up vaccination site, in Mt. Vernon, New York,on March 22, 2021. - Cuomo was there to encourage all people to get vaccinated, especially those in underserved communities that were the most effected by the pandemic. (Photo by Seth Wenig / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SETH WENIG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at Grace Baptist Church, a new pop-up vaccination site, in Mt. Vernon, New York, on March 22, 2021. (Photo by SETH WENIG/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Embattled New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has now been accused of interfering with the state attorney general’s investigation. On Monday, Attorney Debra Katz, who currently represents Cuomo’s second accuser, said the governor’s office had lawyers meet with staffers before they were interviewed by the AG.

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Attorney Debra Katz, lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, attends the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee with his client in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. A professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Attorney Debra Katz. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

She added, attorneys “debriefed” employees after the interviews.

“What the governor is doing is classic ‘intimidation of witnesses 101,’” Katz stated. “Trying to know what witnesses are telling investigators after their interviews or asking to come along is clearly designed to chill people’s willingness to speak to investigators.”

The investigators are thorough and have made clear that they will follow all appropriate leads. https://t.co/mcK8FtI4hW

— Debra Katz (@DebraKatzKMB) March 19, 2021

In the meantime, Cuomo’s senior aides claim the governor’s office is doing its own probe into the sexual harassment allegations. However, the New York AG said it did not direct Cuomo’s office to conduct the so-called “parallel investigation.”