While posing for a photo at a work event in September 2019, the governor “tapped the area” between the employee’s buttocks and thigh, she told investigators, and then moved his fingers upward to “kind of grab that area.” “I felt deflated and I felt disrespected and I felt much, like, smaller and almost younger than I actually am,” she said. She said she had reported the governor’s conduct to investigators to support the women who had come forward with “more extreme” stories and to help establish that they were part of a pattern. “If I could do that, I felt that it was my responsibility to do that,” she said.

Ms. McGrath said she was taking dictation from the governor in 2019 when she noticed the governor had stopped talking. She said she looked up and saw him staring down her shirt. The governor then asked what was on her necklace, whose pendant was hanging between her breasts and her shirt. She said it was a Virgin Mary and an Italian horn. The governor would also ask questions that made her uncomfortable, she said, including about her divorce and whether, if Ms. Commisso were to cheat on her husband, she would tell anyone.

This state employee, a doctor, performed a televised Covid test on the governor at a March 2020 news conference. Beforehand, he asked her not to put the swab in “so deep that you hit my brain.” She said she would be “gentle but accurate.” “Gentle but accurate,” he responded. “I’ve heard that before.” She found his demeanor flirtatious and understood his statement to have sexual undertones. At the news conference, when the doctor appeared in personal protective equipment, the governor said, “You make that gown look good.” The woman told investigators that she “felt that in my professional standing I should share these facts, whatever they are, in order to support if there are any other women. I can’t say there are or not, who are saying they have been put in an uncomfortable position, or if there is any sexual harassment, that you have the facts that you might need.”

At the wedding of an aide, the governor approached Ms. Ruch, shook her hand, and then put his hand on her bare back, she told investigators. She said she grabbed his wrist to move it, at which point the governor said, “Wow, you’re aggressive,” and cupped her face in his hands. “Can I kiss you?” he asked. She turned her head, she said, and he kissed her cheek. (Ms. Ruch was hired by the New York Times photo department in 2022.)

Mr. Cuomo paid so much attention to Ms. Boylan that her supervisor concluded the governor had a “crush” on her, both she and her boss testified. Her boss asked if Ms. Boylan needed help managing the situation. She said no. Mr. Cuomo would also compare her to an ex-girlfriend, even allegedly calling Ms. Boylan by that ex-girlfriend’s name. And, she said, he would touch her legs, waist and back.
On an airplane, Ms. Boylan recalled Mr. Cuomo suggesting, seemingly in jest, that they play strip poker. Ms. Boylan’s boss at first claimed not to remember those remarks. After Ms. Boylan sent her boss what he described as a “disparaging” message that he found “threatening,” he corroborated her account. “I’ve been sexually harassed throughout my career,” she told investigators, “but not in a way where the whole environment was set up to feed the predator.”

Ms. Limmiatis said she had been waiting to meet the governor at a 2017 event when Mr. Cuomo approached her and pressed his fingers into her chest, pausing atop each letter of the energy company’s name that adorned her shirt. Then he leaned in so his cheek touched hers and, in her telling, shared his cover story: He would just say there had been a bug on her shirt. Then, she said, he brushed the pretend bug from the area between her shoulder and breast and walked away. After seeing Mr. Cuomo say during a news conference on March 3, 2021, that he had “never touched anyone inappropriately,” she felt compelled to come forward. “I am a cancer survivor,” Ms. Limmiatis told investigators. “I know an oppressive and destructive force when I see it.” 

Kaitlin met Mr. Cuomo at a fund-raiser that her employer, a lobbying firm, was hosting at the Friars Club. When she introduced herself, he pulled her into a dance pose and told her he was going to have her work for the state. Though she told investigators she had never shared her contact information with him or his staff, nine days later she received a voicemail message inviting her to interview for a job in his office, at his behest. It turned out that two of Mr. Cuomo’s aides had been told to find Kaitlin’s contact information. Her colleagues urged her to accept the job, and she did. “I knew that I was being hired because of what I looked like,” she told investigators. The governor paid undue attention to her physical appearance and would comment on her clothes and makeup, she said.

In a new book, Ms. Miner recounted Mr. Cuomo’s kissing her at public events against her will, actions she believed were an expression of his will to dominate. “His kissing me was about power,” she wrote in “Madam Mayor: Love and Loss in an American City.” She went on: “I never viewed it as sexual. We were gladiators in a public ring and that’s how he showed he was boss.”

Mr. Cuomo would kiss her cheek and would almost always address her as “sweetheart” or “darling,” Ms. Liss said. He spoke to her, she said, like she was “a little girl, almost.” She said she considered Mr. Cuomo’s behavior improper, but not sexual harassment. (A judge, apparently referring to Ms. Liss, said a complainant’s legal conclusion on that matter was “irrelevant.”) Ms. Liss said she had spoken up because “the other young women that had come forward with more egregious allegations weren’t being believed, and I believed them, and I wanted to share an account that was less egregious and spoke to the broader culture that allowed for the things that happened to them to happen to them.”

While Ms. Hinton was working as a consultant for the Housing Department under Mr. Cuomo, he held her in a “very long, too long, too tight, too intimate” hug, she told The Washington Post. She told WNYC that Mr. Cuomo was “aroused” during the embrace. Years after the encounter, Ms. Hinton worked for Mr. Cuomo’s antagonist, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City.