Assembly Finds ‘Overwhelming Evidence’ Cuomo Engaged in Sexual Harassment

The findings of the investigation had led one committee member to say last week that it would be “reasonable” to infer a connection between Mr. Cuomo’s $5.1 million book deal and his administration’s decision to manipulate nursing home death data.

The report makes multiple references to investigators sharing some of the evidence with law enforcement officials, suggesting that there may be further legal repercussions for Mr. Cuomo, whose family — his father, Mario M. Cuomo, was also elected to three terms as governor — ruled New York for two decades.

Mr. Cuomo has maintained that the attorney general, Letitia James, who is now running for governor, had compromised her inquiry with her own political ambitions. He extended that posture on Monday to include the Assembly investigation.

“The Assembly’s report simply parrots the attorney general’s flawed report, failing to engage with the many errors and omissions in the A.G.’s report and her one-sided, biased investigation,” said Rita Glavin, Mr. Cuomo’s lawyer.

“And, like the A.G., the Assembly refused to provide the former governor with access to all the evidence, again denying the governor due process and a meaningful ability to respond,” she continued. “This is disappointing, but hardly surprising.”

Though Mr. Cuomo’s team has repeatedly sought to discredit the allegations, the attacks may be even less effective when directed at the Assembly, whose Democratic leadership had served as a kind of firewall for Mr. Cuomo. The Assembly did not take Ms. James’s conclusions at face value; investigators interviewed 200 witnesses and reviewed roughly 600,000 documents, including recordings, messages and transcripts, some of which were obtained through subpoenas.

The Assembly opened its investigation in March as Mr. Cuomo faced a drumbeat of sexual harassment allegations and calls for his resignation. Investigators from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, the law firm the Assembly retained to conduct the inquiry, had broad leeway to scrutinize not just the sexual harassment claims, but potential misconduct and abuses of power by Mr. Cuomo and his top staff.