Andrew Cuomo A former colleague claims in a shocking new book that homophobic jokes about AIDS and gay men in the military, and explicit stories about his former in-laws, Kennedy, and anal sex.
Cuomo’s former press secretary, Karen Hinton, makes big claims in her memoir Penis Politics.
Between 1997 and 2001, when she was Secretary of Housing and Development, she was Cuomo’s press secretary.
She claims in the book that after the explosion of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Cuomo showed employees a cigar box given to Clinton with a reference to Clinton – ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’. , Policy on homosexuality in the military.
Cuomo, she says, grabbed a cigar and made a cruel joke: ‘At least you can’t catch AIDS like that’.
The shocking comments were described by New York Post, which obtained an enhanced copy of the book.
Cuomo spokesman Richard Ezzopardi told DailyMail.com that the claims were “outrageous and ridiculous.”
Former Cuomo aide Karen Hinton makes big claims in a new memoir called Penis Politics. When he was the Housing and Development Secretary, he worked as their Press Secretary.
At that time Cuomo was married to Kerry Kennedy. He is shown with his parents, former New York governor Mario Cuomo, and his wives Matilda and Ethel Kennedy (far left) on their wedding day.
At the time, Cuomo Lewinsky was one of the advisers willing to help with the scandal.
Hinton claims he joked with the staff, adding: ‘I think we can probably defend oral sex. But I have to draw a line on the President’s a**f******g.’
Hinton also alleged that Cuomo mocked his former in-laws, Kennedy, and told a group of male junior staffers about the two Kennedy brothers ‘f*****g the same woman’.
Hinton claims that one of the male employees present relates how Cuomo, standing beside them smoking cigars on the HUD roof, said of the unidentified Kennedy brothers: ‘The two of them f*****g one. She is a woman.
‘She likes to get the f****d in the ass and some days she goes from one Kennedy house to another to pick it up twice a day.’
Hinton writes that he then added: ‘You know, when you have anal sex with a woman, you own her soul.’
At that time, he was married to Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy.
He had five brothers at that time; Robert Kennedy Jr., Joseph Kennedy, Douglas Harriman Kennedy, Max Kennedy and Christopher Kennedy. His two other brothers, Michael and David, died.
Robert Kennedy Jr., one of the brothers, denied Hinton’s claims to the Post, saying: ‘It’s not true. I have never heard of this. I don’t know Karen Hinton, and I don’t think Andrew would ever tell such a story.’
Hinton writes that Cuomo was given a box of cigars by then-President Bill Clinton with a note that read, ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’. This was in reference to Clinton’s policy on homosexuality in the military. Cuomo is said to have picked up a cigar and joked: ‘At least you can’t catch AIDS like that’
Cuomo’s attorney, Rita Glavin, has not commented on the claims, but Richard Azzopardi, who served as his spokesman as New York governor and now works privately for Cuomo, told DailyMail.com. . That she was ‘rewriting history’.
Hinton’s book Penis Politics will be released later this month. Facebook has banned its ads
‘The closer she gets to publication, the more scandalous and ridiculous her claims become.
’ In 2018, when Ms. Hinton was not chasing the headlines for selling a book, she wrote: “I have been fortunate enough to have male bosses like Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio who know how to respect women. Done. Happened. Being a crap manager.”
‘We will have no further comment on his transparent efforts to take advantage of the forceful rewriting of history.’
Cuomo awaits his first court date on the single charge of allegedly forcibly touching the breast of female colleague Brittany Comiso in November 2020.
He has denied touching her or any of the other women involved in Attorney General Letitia James’ report.
Cuomo, 63, resigned in August after reports surfaced.
James has since announced his plans to run for governor of New York the next year, which Cuomo claims was the inspiration to bring him down.
Facebook has banned Hinton from advertising his book on its platform, because of its headline.
He also worked for New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.