NEW YORK (WCBS 880) — Rita Glavin, attorney for Andrew Cuomo, announced Thursday that the former governor is asking Attorney General Letitia James to recuse herself from probes levied against him while she campaigns for governor.
"They have to step away because someone running for governor has every motivation to prolong that investigation to ensure former Gov. Cuomo isn’t a political threat," Glavin said.
"She put her name on the front cover of that report and then [promoted] that report and that report is what led directly to the governor being forced to resign," she argued.
The attorney general joined the race for New York governor late last month on the same day Cuomo was charged with a forcible touching misdemeanor.
Glavin questioned if her political motivations conflicted with her investigations into Cuomo.
"[The] attorney general is making decisions, official decisions, at the same time she's seeking campaign endorsement contributions for her run for governor and she's having to make the case why she would be better than or anyone else she's gonna run for office," she said.
His lawyer also argued Cuomo did not want her office to investigate him because she claimed Cuomo knew she was going to run for governor.
"Her judgment, in those months, was absolutely compromised by her own political motivations and what we are seeing right now in the last several months proves the fact that the attorney general and her office is being compromised in her decision-making by her campaign for governor," she added.
Glavin said she still has not had access to the evidence from the August report James' office released.
"She's not given us access as we sit here today to all the evidence," she said. "[I] still don't have all the evidence."
Glavin's request came days after the state ethics board revoked Cuomo's $5.1 million book deal for “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic," which was being probed by the AG's office for allegedly misusing state resources.
With an Assembly Judiciary Committee report into Cuomo's alleged wrongdoings reportedly set for public release in the "next few days," Cuomo's attorney also announced she sent a second letter Thursday, asking for an advanced copy before it's public release.
Cuomo has continued to deny any wrongdoing.
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