'He is reaping a lifetime of bad will': Cuomo was only brought down because he had so many political enemies and not because of AG sexual harassment report, say Albany insiders

The Governor resigned on Tuesday, a week after being labeled a serial sexual harasser by Attorney General Letitia James. He is pictured afterwards 

Andrew Cuomo was only brought down because of the number of enemies he'd made politically over the years, and not because of the Attorney General's sexual harassment report, insiders in Albany have claimed. 

The Governor resigned on Tuesday, a week after being labeled a serial sexual harasser by Attorney General Letitia James. 

She said that he'd sexually harassed 11 women and created a 'toxic work place'. 

Some of the allegations are that he physically assaulted women, including an aide who says he stuck his hand up her blouse in November 2020. 

Others are based on public comments he made, like telling the doctor who gave him his COVID test that she made the PPE gown 'look good' - something he did in the glare of the world's media, when millions were tuning into his press conferences every day.

He maintains that he didn't touch anyone and that the public comments were 'jokes' which do not amount to sexual harassment and are inappropriate at worst.  

Others, like FOX host Tucker Carlson, agree with Cuomo that the AG report is shaky and that a lot of the evidence is lacking. 

In a New Yorker piece that was published on Friday, one unnamed Albany official said: 'Talk about reaping what you sow. He is reaping a lifetime’s worth of bad will.' 

Boylan, one of the women who accused him in the AG report, said he is a 'master manipulator' who took years to bring down despite widespread claims of bullying. 

'It was worth the wait. It was worth the wait to be able to counter this master manipulator who doesn’t care about truth, who doesn’t care about fact, who doesn’t care about abuse. It had to be airtight,' she said. 

Ron Kim, who has announced a run for Lieutenant Governor in the November 2022 election, said: 'I didn’t expect any outcome when I came forward, but I didn’t think it was going to be like this.' 

Cuomo was ultimately brought down by AG Letitia James, left. He has been replaced by Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul, who was quick to distance herself from him 

Earlier this year, he went public after receiving a call from the Governor where Cuomo allegedly threatened to 'destroy' him for publicly criticizing his handling of the nursing home scandal.   

Accuser Charlotte Bennett said Cuomo's resignation speech was typical of him - he tried to blame the women 

Before Cuomo spoke, his attorney Rita Glavin gave her own press conference where she sought to undermine the women's credibility.  

'He couldn’t resign without first being the victim and blaming all of us,' Bennett said.

Boylan said she felt re-victimized when Glavin started picking apart her story. 

She had first tweeted against Cuomo in December 2020, when he was a pandemic hero, calling him an abuser. 

'It was like December 13th again. I’m speaking up and I’m being retaliated against—except now it’s on national news across the country. That’s what it felt like, when his lawyer went on air and said I was a liar, again, and suggested that I was politically motivated,' she said. 

She denied Glavin's claim that she was politically motivated against Cuomo, saying: 'I think we can all agree it was ludicrous to go against, at the time, the most popular, the most powerful Democrat in the country. Strategically speaking.' 

Both of the women think Cuomo only resigned because he saw no other 'political move'. 

'He was not resigning because he knows he acted inappropriately. 

'He knows he acted inappropriately. He resigned because he had no next move to make. And, in that sense, we have a lot of work to do,' Bennett said.