Cuomo vs the Equal Employment Opportunity Act

Around 12noon today August 10th, 2021, New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo resigned effective in 14-days with plans to transition to Lieutenant Governor, Kathy Hocul. She will be the state’s first woman Governor.

I felt it necessary to personally address the topic from an organizational Diversity Equity Inclusion & Belonging (D&I) standpoint. NY State is Inclusion Corporation’s headquarters state and I am one of the elected members of the state’s Democratic party that signed a petition along with party members to remove The Governor on March 7th of this year. Before today Cuomo was widely predicted to be impeached by elected members across party lines in the state’s Assembly and Senate after an investigation on sexual misconduct allegations by an independent committee appointed by the Attorney General’s (AG) office.

For those of you paying attention who are in leadership roles at public or private organizations, let me quiet some of the noise, and point to the importance of the criminal findings from the AG’s investigation.

Even while journalists in the news and social media covered the allegations of Cuomo’s interaction with the alleged victims of sexual harrassment, the real crime is rooted in the elaborate retaliation strategy that was devised by Team Cuomo, against the whistleblowers who came forward to tell their…