NY AG James’ Campaign to Face Revived Claims in Sex Assault Case

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ campaign organization must face retaliation claims from a former staffer who claims she was sexually assaulted at a 2021 political fundraiser by the attorney general’s then-chief of staff, a Manhattan intermediate appeals court decided Tuesday.

Sofia Quintanar, who in 2020 worked as a deputy press secretary for the attorney general’s office and later sought to work with the gubernatorial campaign, sufficiently pleaded “facts from which it can be inferred” that the chief of staff, Ibrahim Khan, “was motivated to sabotage” her application to work for James for NY, the New York Supreme Court First ...