ms. boylen wholesale. what perhaps i think was most bothersome, and there was a lot, but out of interviewing 179 witnesses, the investigators made a choice not to include what a lot of people had to say. and buried at the end at the page 121 is a sentence that should scare everybody. scare everybody if you are being accused of something, and this is all you get about what people have to say that's good about you. here is what it said. it said a number of former and current executive chamber staff, particularly the senior staff, as well as state troopers with the protection detail denied having witnessed or experienced any conduct by the governor that could be characterized as sexual or otherwise inappropriate. that sentence is buried at the end and of the over 1,000 footnotes, why didn't they cite the transcripts? why didn't they quote from those people? did what those people have to say bear upon any of the allegations that they included? the governor deserved to have a full and balanced report that laid

ms. boylen saying. one of her aides resigned, and did the investigation subpoena the records from the campaign in the same way they subpoenaed the executive chamber and my client for anything and everything having to do with the sexual harassment with lindsay boylan. the complainants needed to be scrutinized just as much as the governor and the chamber, and that didn't happen here. the investigators credited lindsay boylen despite the fact they knew she threatened a witness to get them to change his story, and he did. one thing that has been missing through this is that there was a signal about seven or eight months before ms. boylen made her tweets in december, a signal that she was out for some type of revenge against the governor's office. you see, ms. boylen had ran in a primary against congressman, jerry nadler, and in march of 2020 when covid start the governor issued a executive order that limited the time you could get petitions to be on the ballot, and she felt that was directed at her and she

ms. boylen constituted unlawful retaliation. i will turn it back to mr. kim to say a few words about our findings with respect to the workplace culture within the executive chamber. >> thank you, ms. clark. as set forth in our report, we find that the culture within the executive chamber contributed to the conditions that allowed the governor to sexually harassing conduct to occur and to persist. the culture also informed a way in which the executive chamber responded to allegations of sexual harassment as ms. clark has described through violations of their own policies and through unlawful retaliation. what was the culture? words that witnesses have used repeatedly to describe it include toxic, hostile, abusive. others use words like fear, intimidation, bullying, vindictive. as one senior staffer stated bluntly, as the sexual harassment allegations became public in march of this year in text exchanges with others -- with another in the administration, i quote, hopefully when this is all done, people will realize the culture even outside of the sexual har

ms. boylen and an assistant, and they started sending the memos to reporters. there was also a proposed letter or op-ed drafted by the governor that went through several drafts. the letter attacked ms. boylan for alleged misconduct at work and alleged misconduct with men other than the governor, and that she was funded by far right republicans and supporters of donald trump. although the letter was never published it was read to those outside the executive chamber either to get their advice or sign their names to it and share it with at least one member of the press. the governor was arguing for the release of that letter. he was finally convinced to abandon it by a number of people that thought it was a bad idea in part because of what was in the letter could not be substantiated and shaming a victim was not a good strategy. under the standard the confidential release of internal records to the press and the letter disparaging ms. boylen violated it's own rules. >> the culture within the executive chamber contributed to the conditions that allowed the sexual h