![](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/fc6abd98-00aa-4a42-8898-6d1c25cc83cb\/8bd53ab7-0d32-432c-86f8-01fd17173b89\/1280x720\/match\/931\/524\/image.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi reacts to the allegations made against the New York governor.<\/p>\n
Gov. Cuomo\u2019s top aide, Melissa DeRosa, urged administration underlings to just keep doing their jobs during this “beyond challenging” time \u2014 in a \u2018nothing-to-see-here-folks\u2019 message that failed to mention either the mounting sexual misconduct allegations or ongoing nursing home scandal roiling the administration.<\/p>\n
DeRosa \u2014 whose stunning admission that the Cuomo administration hid the true toll of COVID-19 nursing home fatalities from the public and officials was exposed by The New York Post \u2014 thanked her staff Sunday in a staff-wide email.<\/p>\n
“This past year has been beyond challenging,” she wrote, with the country coming on the one-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. “There are no words for the extreme and daunting crisis that our world faced. But together, we navigated a once-in-a-century pandemic to the absolute best of our ability with one purpose held tight: to deliver for the people of New York.”<\/p>\n
CLICK HERE FOR FULL CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n But DeRosa\u2019s soppy note is void of any reference to the pair of predicaments plaguing Cuomo and threatening to topple his administration.<\/p>\n The governor is facing sexual harassment and abuse accusations from two former staffers \u2014 Lindsey Boylan, who claims Cuomo planted an unwanted kiss on her lips, and Charlotte Bennett, who said interactions left her convinced that Cuomo “wanted to sleep with” her.<\/p>\n The three-term Democrat brushed off the allegations \u2014 which have prompted a probe by Attorney General Tish James \u2014 as “jokes” that were misinterpreted as “unwanted flirtation” in an apology Sunday.<\/p>\n \n FILE \u2014 In this Sept. 14, 2018 file photo, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, is joined by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as she speaks to reporters during a news conference, in New York. (AP Photo\/Mary Altaffer, File)\n <\/p>\n Meanwhile, a 2016 video has emerged showing Cuomo egging on a female journalist to “eat the whole sausage” at the New York State Fair.<\/p>\n And a former Albany journalist, Lindsay Nielsen, has come forward saying the “personal attacks” she endured by Cuomo\u2019s administration drove her to quit her job.<\/p>\n Cuomo has also been under fierce fire for his botching the state\u2019s response to the coronavirus pandemic in nursing homes that killed thousands \u2014 and repeatedly downplaying the actual number of deaths. He is also facing ramped-up calls to resign.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/640\/320\/AP21043572585845-3.jpg?ve=1&tl=1\")
<\/picture>\n