Ex-Cuomo Aide’s New Book Alleges Inappropriate Conduct by NYT Writer: Report

A veteran journalist for The New York Times behaved inappropriately towards Andrew Cuomo’s then-top aide before his reporting helped out the disgraced former governor’s alleged sexual misconduct, according to The Washington Post.

The revelation of Jesse McKinley’s own alleged misconduct—and the subsequent Times investigation that led to his reassignment—was reported Tuesday by Erik Wemple, a media critic for the Post. The incident and inquiry are outlined in detail in a forthcoming memoir by the ex-aide, Melissa DeRosa. The book, What’s Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Crisis, is set to hit shelves next Tuesday.

In it, according to the Post, DeRosa recounts how Cuomo’s team would spar with reporters covering his administration, including McKinley, then the Times’ Albany bureau chief. After a particularly contentious exchange between the two men during a May 20, 2020 press conference, DeRosa called McKinley up for “an air-clearing meeting,” Wemple writes.

Read more at The Daily Beast.