Brittany Commisso, a former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York who accused him of groping her in late 2020, is suing him under the state's Adult Survivors Act for what she described as pervasive abusive conduct, according to court papers.
Ms. Commisso's allegations against Mr. Cuomo are not new, and he has long denied them. In 2021, she filed a formal criminal complaint against Mr. Cuomo with the Albany County sheriff's office, which investigated and filed charges against him. Albany County prosecutors decided not to prosecute, saying that while they were deeply troubled and found Ms. Commisso cooperative and credible, they had concluded they could not meet their burden of proof at trial.
The legal action came just days before the expiration Friday of the state's Adult Survivors Act, which gave people who said they were sexually abused in New York a one-year window to sue their alleged attackers, even if the statute of limitations had expired.
This week, Mayor Eric Adams of New York was accused in a similar lawsuit of assaulting a Florida woman three decades ago. Mr. Adams has denied the allegation and said he did not recall ever meeting the accuser.
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