Cuomo’s lawyer uses government resources to slam AG bomb report as impeachment calls swirl

Rita Glavin, attorney for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, at length refuted the state attorney general’s report on the sexual harassment allegations, in a speech broadcast live on the governor’s official website.

Glavin, who is not a state employee but an attorney for the Seward & Kissel law firm, appeared before the state seal in an exhibit the governor often uses to address New Yorkers . She used the time to argue against the many allegations contained in the report, which is being considered by the State Assembly Judiciary Committee as part of an impeachment inquiry.

“From day one it was about building a case against Governor Cuomo,” Glavin said, saying the attorney general’s investigation “was not about an independent review of the allegations” and was the result of prejudices held by investigators.

“What happened here is that this investigation took all possible negative things that could be said about the governor and they included it,” she said. “And they ignored the positive, and the things that would balance it out, and the things that would undermine what some people were saying about the governor. And that’s not fair.”