

Cuomo.”Ĭuomo’s attorney, Rita Glavin, said the records are being sought because Trooper 1's lawsuit invoked the allegations of the other women to buttress her accusations. This is nothing more than yet another thinly disguised campaign of retaliation and harassment by Mr. Boylan’s former employers, her professional contacts, and even Verizon to try and obtain Ms. He said the relevant value of the evidence must substantially outweigh the danger of harm to any victim.īoylan’s attorneys, Julie Gerchik and Danya Perry, said there is “no precedent for the barrage of third-party subpoenas Mr. Licul’s motion cites a federal rule intended to shield victims of alleged sexual harassment from embarrassment or sexual stereotyping by introducing evidence that they had engaged in other sexual behavior. “He wants to know whether Boylan had a work affair and whether Bennett was sexually assaulted in college, issues that have little, if any, relevance to whether Cuomo sexually harassed the two women.” “Unable to mount a credible defense … Cuomo now seeks to punish his victims further by peering into their sex lives,” Valdi Licul, an attorney for Trooper 1, wrote in a motion filed last week.
