New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s defense attorney once said that actress Mia Farrow “implanted” her daughter Dylan’s accusation of sexual assault against her adoptive father Woody Allen. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that defense attorney Elkan Abramowitz will be detained by Cuomo as he faces investigations into how he manipulated the state’s nursing homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic and claims he sexually harassed two nurses. However, Abramowitz has a history of those accused of sexual abuse, portraying Allen after Dylan Farrow went public in 2014 with his allegations that the actor-director molested her at the age of seven. . Allen denied the allegations and did not face criminal charges. “The idea that (Dylan) was molested was implanted by her mother and that the memory will never go away,” Abramowitz said. Both Dylan and Mia Farrow denied the allegations, and the prosecutor who refused to charge Allen said there was no evidence that Farrow had been trained. Abramowitz also represented the disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein New York Times, and is a longtime friend and former donor of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.
Cuomo is accused of unwanted sexual advances against two female nurses, Lindsey Boylan and Charlotte Bennett. On Monday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office has officially received a referral from Cuomo to investigate the allegations and will hire an outside law firm to do so. Bennett is retaining defense attorney Debra Katz, who represented Dr. Christine Blasey Ford after she now accused Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Times reported Monday. In a statement sent to The Daily Beast, Katz wrote that Bennett “will fully cooperate with the prosecutor general’s investigation.”
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