Ibrahim khan

The 2017 article recounted the claims of a 47-year-old staffer in James’s public advocate office that Khan, in 2014, had drugged and sexually assaulted her at a holiday party. The piece cited a complaint that the staffer had filed with New York state’s Division of Human Rights. It was published, furthermore, just weeks before exposés on the sexual misconduct of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein supercharged a plume of #MeToo stories. A spokeswoman for James’s office at the time provided a rebuttal to the staffer’s claims, calling them “an outright lie.” In response to questions from the Erik Wemple Blog this week, an AG spokesperson wrote that three independent agencies “investigated the allegation and determined that there was no basis for further action. Sexual assault is a very serious matter, which is why the office undertook every step necessary to ensure that these allegations were thoroughly investigated.” Journalism long ago settled on norms for handling stories that fall apart. Readers should be apprised of the development, whether it be through a retraction, editor’s note or correction. If the New York Post took those steps, it managed to sneak them past the Erik Wemple Blog. A question regarding a retraction was among those that the New York Post spokeswoman declined to answer. James has previously positioned herself as a #MeToo purist. “I believe women,” she said in announcing the results of her office’s 2021 investigation into sexual misconduct complaints ag...

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A former aide to New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing her longtime top aide of sexual assault—and James of protecting him both during and after an investigation into the claim earlier this year. Sofia Quintanar, a 33-year-old who served as deputy press secretary in James’ office, alleges in a complaint obtained by The Daily Beast that in November 2021, then-chief of staff Ibrahim Khan “forcibly kissed” her several times outside a Brooklyn fundraising event, ignoring her protestations. An unidentified political contact who’d been at the event later told her “that it was an ‘open secret’ that Khan was ‘sketchy.’” Quintanar claims after she approached James’ campaign manager three months ago, the attorney general’s office slow-walked an internal investigation into the matter until Khan could quietly resign, “making it appear as if Khan was leaving his post naturally before the start of … James’ next term in office.” Last Wednesday Quintanar told The New York Times, “I find it just appalling to see how the office handled this publicly.” In a statement released the same day, James said that she believed the women, and that her team had “treated this matter as aggressively as every other matter that has come before our office.”

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The 2017 article recounted the claims of a 47-year-old staffer in James’s public advocate office that Khan, in 2014, had drugged and sexually assaulted her at a holiday party. The piece cited a complaint that the staffer had filed with New York state’s Division of Human Rights. It was published, furthermore, just weeks before exposés on the sexual misconduct of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein supercharged a plume of #MeToo stories. A spokeswoman for James’s office at the time provided a rebuttal to the staffer’s claims, calling them “an outright lie.” In response to questions from the Erik Wemple Blog this week, an AG spokesperson wrote that three independent agencies “investigated the allegation and determined that there was no basis for further action. Sexual assault is a very serious matter, which is why the office undertook every step necessary to ensure that these allegations were thoroughly investigated.” Journalism long ago settled on norms for handling stories that fall apart. Readers should be apprised of the development, whether it be through a retraction, editor’s note or correction. If the New York Post took those steps, it managed to sneak them past the Erik Wemple Blog. A question regarding a retraction was among those that the New York Post spokeswoman declined to answer. James has previously positioned herself as a #MeToo purist. “I believe women,” she said in announcing the results of her office’s 2021 investigation into sexual misconduct complaints ag...

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A former aide to New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing her longtime top aide of sexual assault—and James of protecting him both during and after an investigation into the claim earlier this year. Sofia Quintanar, a 33-year-old who served as deputy press secretary in James’ office, alleges in a complaint obtained by The Daily Beast that in November 2021, then-chief of staff Ibrahim Khan “forcibly kissed” her several times outside a Brooklyn fundraising event, ignoring her protestations. An unidentified political contact who’d been at the event later told her “that it was an ‘open secret’ that Khan was ‘sketchy.’” Quintanar claims after she approached James’ campaign manager three months ago, the attorney general’s office slow-walked an internal investigation into the matter until Khan could quietly resign, “making it appear as if Khan was leaving his post naturally before the start of … James’ next term in office.” Last Wednesday Quintanar told The New York Times, “I find it just appalling to see how the office handled this publicly.” In a statement released the same day, James said that she believed the women, and that her team had “treated this matter as aggressively as every other matter that has come before our office.”

• News • • All News • NY News • NJ News • CT News • LI News • U.S. • World • Health • Business • Entertainment • Politics • Tech • Weather • • First Alert Weather • Radars & Maps • CBS2 Weather Map • CBS2 Weather Watchers • First Alert Weather 101 • Sports • • All Sports • Giants • Yankees • Knicks • Rangers • Islanders • • CBS Sports Live • Jets • Mets • Nets • Devils • Odds • Video • More • • Station Info • WCBS-TV • WLNY-TV • Contact Us • Advertise • Contests & Promotions • Galleries • Links & Numbers • Download the App • Log In • • Search • Search • NEW YORK -- Stunning accusations against Attorney General The charges are coming from one of the women whose allegations of sexual harassment led to the resignation of James' longtime chief of staff, Ibrahim Khan. As CBS2 political reporter Marcia Kramer explains, she raises many questions about how the case was handled, and others have wondered why the Attorney General waited until after she won reelection to make the case public. READ MORE: Sofia Quintanar, 33, worked for James as a deputy press secretary until last year. She is speaking out now as both an alleged victim of sexual harassment by Khan and as a former employee who doesn't understand how her case was handled differently from the sexual harassment case brought by the office against Cuomo that forced him to resign. She charges that James took more care to protect Khan than the women who accused him of abuse. "I find it just appalling to see how the office handl...