Kathy Hochul: “Voluntary intoxication is not a licence for gang rape.”

The decision by Matthew Van Houten, the Tompkins county district attorney, not to prosecute the 2024 case, and the questions raised in recent days over the Cornell police department’s investigation of the allegations, have undercut my…

This culture has to stop. And in New York, we’re going to do everything we can to stop it.

The young woman at the center of this case deserves to know that every fact will be examined and justice pursued.

I am deeply disturbed by how Cornell University police and the Tompkins County district attorney’s office handled allegations of a 2024 sexual assault at the university.