Governor Andrew Cuomo’s staff were given more layoffs on Friday as the three-year-old staffer struggled to hold on to his powerful post amid growing calls for his impeachment over sexual harassment allegations and covering up the death of the nursing home.
The governor’s office confirmed the departure of data analyst Erin Hammond and one of Cuomo’s planners, Sophie Boldison, in a statement to The Post.
A Cuomo spokesperson said Hammond was leaving to “focus on her family” and that Boldison was taking a new position in the state university system – claiming both rooms had been in the works for some time.
At least five assistants have left Cuomo’s staff in the past week, and reports have surfaced of a toxic work environment even before the scandals.
The most prominent assistant to leave Cuomo’s staff so far is Gareth Rhodes, a leading coronavirus assistant, who announced his departure on Wednesday after a guest at his wedding went public with allegations that Cuomo sexually harassed her at the reception afterward. .
Rhodes returns to his previous post with the Wall Street regulator, the Department of Financial Services.
That same day, Will Burns, a spokesman for the governor’s press service, announced that he would be stepping down so he could prepare for the law school entrance exam.
And Cuomo’s press secretary Caitlin Girouard will set her last day on Cuomo’s staff on Friday – after spending two years there.
Leaving for a post at a technology company, she told The Post in a statement that she accepted the new job in January, before the tsunami of the scandal hit.