What follows is a conversation with Lindsay Boylan. She was an aide to Governor Andrew Cuomo during his time in office in New York.

She was the first woman to come forward publicly with accusations of harassment and abuse against the governor, accusations that were ultimately corroborated and verified in the Attorney General's report.

You can see my full discussion of Cuomo's record and career in the article that I wrote for

Card Affairs Magazine and in the longer video that I did a video on podcast.

This, however, is just the standalone interview with Lindsay Boylan, portions of which appear in that video.

Lindsay, thank you so much for joining me to talk about this.

I mean, people can read the Attorney General's report if they want a full sense of exactly what Cuomo did in office. It's horrific. It was not, you know, it's not

just your testimony. They corroborated everything you said. They were, you know, a number of other people

who were victims of Cuomo,

and they talked to, I think, 179 witnesses. They reviewed tons of internal documents. It's all

there documented. So, but I do want to talk to you about, you know, you were the first person

to come forward with claims against Cuomo.

You wrote a public blog post detailing what happened.

Perhaps you could tell us a little bit about his reaction,

because part of that report is about what was done in response.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I would say, just to start out, thank you so much for having me.

I've always contended that Andrew Cuomo's abuse of women is really symptomatic of his larger abuse of power.

And I think his reaction to me telling the truth in my medium piece about his behavior and the toxic work environment

that he harbored is exactly an example of that abuse of power. It doesn't have to be related

to sexual harassment. So he employed basically his entire senior staff to come after me,

to smear me. He connected his staff to the Times Up senior staff to try and get

them to sign on to not, at the very least, not speaking out on my behalf, which they did not.

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