Albany, New York, 10 August 2021

Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, who has been lauded on his services during pandemic Covid-19 has resigned Tuesday after finding him sexually harassed 11 women, including current or former state employees.

New York Attorney General, Letitia James issued a report in beginning of the month charging Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed 'multiple' women. In an announcement in press conference today, he said that the report and impeachment probe had become a distraction.

' I think that given the circumstances the best way I can help now is, if I step aside and let government get back to governing,” he said. “And therefore that’s what I’ll do.”

Lt. Governor Kathy Hochul will be first woman ever to serve as New York State Governor. She will serve till end of the year 2022, during the remaining tenure of the outgoing governor.

A Queens native, Cuomo, a Democrat, spent his entire adult life in the political realm, first as a campaign manager and adviser to his father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo, before ascending to federal housing secretary, state attorney general and eventually governor himself.