San Diego Union-Tribune

CUOMO ACCUSER SHARES DETAILS

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As New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to return to the business of governing Monday, one of his sexual harassment accusers met via Zoom for more than four hours with investigat­ors working for the state attorney general’s office.

During the interview, Charlotte Bennett revealed new details about Cuomo’s behavior and what she said was a “sexually hostile work environmen­t,” according to her lawyer, including a claim the governor frequently made suggestive remarks about the size of his hands.

“One piece of new informatio­n that came to light today was the Governor’s preoccupat­ion with his hand size and what the large size of his hands indicated to Charlotte and other members of his staff,” her lawyer, Debra Katz, said in a statement.

Bennett provided investigat­ors with 120 pages of records to corroborat­e her accusation­s, according to Katz.

Bennett, 25, is one of a number of women who have accused Cuomo of workplace harassment. Some have said Cuomo demeaned them, subjected them to unwanted kisses and touches or asked them about their sex lives.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny greeted his supporters via Instagram on Monday from the prison where he is likely to spend the next two years, referring to his new confines as “our friendly concentrat­ion camp.”

Navalny, whose whereabout­s had been unknown for days, said in a message posted on his Instagram page that he had been transferre­d to Penal Colony No. 2 in the Vladimir Region east of Moscow. Navalny had passed the message along to his lawyers, who were able to visit him at the penal colony earlier in the day for the first time.

It was the prison, known for harsh conditions even by Russian standards, where Russian media reported Navalny had been sent two weeks ago. But it later emerged that Navalny was dispatched from the Moscow jail where he had been held to a different detention center first.

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