Her mother in law is Pin charge of the Epstein case
CUOMO AIDE COMPARES HERSELF TO GHISLAINE MAXWELL DURING INVESTIGATION
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‘Am I Ghislaine Maxwell?’: Probe reveals Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa’s heated call with journalists
By Bernadette Hogan and Bruce GoldingAugust 6, 2021 | 2:30pm | Updated
‘Am I Ghislaine Maxwell?’: Probe reveals Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa’s heated call with journalists
By Bernadette Hogan and Bruce GoldingAugust 6, 2021 | 2:30pm | Updated
If she’s Ghislaine Maxwell, does that make Gov. Andrew Cuomo … Jeffrey Epstein?
Cuomo’s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, sarcastically likened herself to the alleged accomplice of the late, notorious pedophile during a heated conference call with two Albany journalists, according to a recording that’s part of the bombshell state report on sexual harassment allegations against the governor.
“Am I Ghislaine Maxwell in this situation because she walked in and said hello?” DeRosa said.
“Because I just want to make sure that next time, I don’t look at anyone in the eye.”
DeRosa made the bizarre, self-deprecating remark during a conversation with editors of the Albany Times Union on March 13, according to Attorney General Letitia James’ report.
Earlier that day, the Times Union reported on a June 2020 interaction between DeRosa and Charlotte Bennett, the 25-year-old former Cuomo staffer who’d recently publicly accused the governor, 63, of sexually harassing her.
While castigating Times Union editors Brendan Lyons and Casey Seiler over the article, DeRosa repeated her Maxwell analogy as she mocked Bennett in dramatic, affected tones, according to the recording.
“You presented it like, Melissa Ghislaine DeRosa introduces herself to the poor, innocent Charlotte Bennett as she walks through the door with the governor and the place is lined up to look at them,” DeRosa said.
“And she’s — there’s the predatory figure in Christian Louboutins, saying, ‘Nice, I’m so glad you’re here.'”
DeRosa added: “Guys, I’d like to say I think you guys are ridiculous.”
Maxwell, 59, is being held without bail pending trial in Manhattan federal court on conspiracy and child sex trafficking charges tied to Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls during the 1990s and early 2000s.
The multimillionaire financier Epstein hanged himself while locked up in August 2019, about a month after his blockbuster arrest in the sickening scheme.
Maxwell’s prosecution is being overseen by DeRosa’s mother-in-law, Manhattan US Attorney Audrey Strauss
Time’s Up boss Roberta Kaplan resigns after alleged efforts to discredit Cuomo victim
By Emily CraneAugust 9, 2021 | 11:16am | Updated
Prominent US attorney and chairwoman of the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, Roberta Kaplan, has resigned from the organization amid criticism of her ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and her alleged efforts to discredit one of his accusers.
Kaplan, who co-founded the legal defense fund in the wake of the #MeToo movement, submitted her resignation on Monday — saying that her work as a practicing lawyer conflicted with her responsibilities as chairwoman, the New York Times reported.
“As a result, I cannot offer the degree of transparency about my firm’s matters now being demanded, since that would be contrary to my responsibilities as a lawyer. I therefore have reluctantly come to the conclusion that an active law practice is no longer compatible with serving on the Board at Time’s Up at this time and I hereby resign,” she wrote.
The progressive attorney was referenced in Attorney General Letitia James’ damning report released last week that accused Cuomo of sexually harassing 11 women. Her law firm also represented Cuomo’s top aide Melissa DeRosa during the investigation.
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Investigators found that Kaplan had reviewed a draft op-ed letter that attacked Lindsey Boylan, who was the first woman to publicly accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment, according to the report. The letter was never published.
Roberta Kaplan co-founded the legal defense fund in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
Roberta Kaplan co-founded the legal defense fund in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
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Investigators say DeRosa, who resigned on Sunday, led the efforts to try and discredit Boylan.
DeRosa told investigators that Kaplan had reviewed the letter regarding Boylan and determined that it was “okay with some changes,” according to the report.
“The draft letter or op-ed attacking Ms. Boylan — particularly when combined with the release of the confidential internal records to the press — constitutes retaliation,” the investigators wrote in the report.
Kaplan noted in her resignation letter the severity of the attorney general’s findings.
“Unfortunately, recent events have made it clear that even our apparent allies in the fight to advance women can turn out to be abusers,” she said.
However, she said she couldn’t answer questions about Cuomo or DeRosa due to her work as a practicing lawyer.
Her resignation came as a group of sexual harassment survivors wrote an open letter to the Time’s Up board on Monday, accusing the organization of “failing the survivor community.”
The letter said the survivors were “dismayed” to see Kaplan’s name mentioned in the attorney general’s report and accused the attorney of helping “Cuomo and his office retaliate against at least one of nearly a dozen women who were courageous in speaking up about the myriad of ways he abused his power and violated their bodies in the workplace.”
“Time’s Up has abandoned the very people it was supposed to champion. The board continues to fail to heed the outcry from survivors. Time’s Up is failing all survivors.”
Kaplan’s resignation also came on the same day that Brittany Commisso, the aide who lodged the most serious accusations against Cuomo, went public in a new interview — claiming he groped and hugged her for “personal sexual satisfaction” and turned her “dream job … into a nightmare.”
Commisso, previously known only as “Executive Assistant #1,” tearfully detailed what she called unwanted touching during creepy encounters with Cuomo, for whom she started working in 2017, in an interview with “CBS This Morning.”
https://nypost.com/2021/08/09/roberta-kaplan-resigns-as-times-up-boss-over-uproar-over-ties-to-cuomo/
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