Lindsey Boylan, the former deputy secretary for economic development and special adviser to the governor, revealed that Cuomo constantly sought her out and had staffers arrange meetings with her, where he made inappropriate comments.
"Let’s play strip poker," Boylan said Cuomo remarked on a flight from an event in October 2017, according to an essay she wrote on Medium published Wednesday.
A statement from Cuomo’s office on Wednesday denied the claims.
"As we said before, Ms. Boylan's claims of inappropriate behavior are quite simply false," said press secretary Caitlin Girouard.
Boylan described another encounter in December 2016, when she said Cuomo arranged through a handler to meet her in his Albany office, to which she reluctantly agreed. She said he gave her a tour of his office, "smirked" and showed off a cigar box he said was given to him by former President Bill Clinton while he served as the secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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Boylan stressed that she interpreted that to be an innuendo referencing the affair between Clinton and his then-intern Monica Lewinsky in the mid-1990s.
She noted being warned by other staffers when she joined Cuomo's administration in 2015 to "be careful around the Governor."
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Boylan said his behavior "was all so normalized — particularly by Melissa DeRosa and other top women around him — that only now do I realize how insidious his abuse was."
She also alleged that shortly before the office incident, that made her feel uncomfortable, Stephanie Benton, director of the governor’s offices, told her in an email that Cuomo suggested she look up images of Lisa Shields — his rumored former girlfriend — because "we could be sisters" and told Boylan she was "the better looking sister."
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"The Governor began calling me 'Lisa' in front of colleagues. It was degrading," Boylan wrote, including screenshots of the email exchange between her and Benton.
Boylan said in another incident, this time in Cuomo's New York City office, he kissed her on the lips.
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"I was in shock, but I kept walking," Boylan wrote.
"The idea that someone might think I held my high-ranking position because of the Governor's crush' on me was more demeaning than the kiss itself."
In her statement denying the claims, Cuomo's aide Girouard said that while Boylan described a plane trip in 2017, flight manifests show no flight where she was alone with the governor, a single press aide, and a New York State Trooper, as described.
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Cuomo’s office also released a statement from individuals they said were also on the same flights -- John Maggiore, Howard Zemsky, Dani Lever and Abbey Fashouer Collins. That statement said, "We were on each of these October flights and this conversation did not happen."
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., immediately called for Cuomo to resign following Boylan's story, calling him the "Worst Governor in America" and a "criminal sexual predator."
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