New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ chief of staff Ibrahim Khan has resigned from his post after being embroiled in an investigation into at least two allegations of sexual harassment.
This has been reported in a statement by the press office of the attorney general collected by ‘The New York Times’, which details that “an” independent and impartial investigation “has been carried out and that Khan has resigned after the opening of the file.
“The Attorney General’s Office has protocols in place to fully investigate any allegations of misconduct,” a spokesperson said, stating that the New York attorney general “takes these matters very seriously.”
Khan had been one of James’s closest political advisers for nearly a decade. He has been accused of inappropriate touching and unwanted kissing by at least one woman, which is why the prosecutor hired a law firm to investigate the allegations.
These accusations against his now former chief of staff have been particularly sensitive for the New York attorney general, since she had supervised a sexual harassment investigation in 2021 of then New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, according to the aforementioned newspaper.
When investigators hired by James’ office determined that Cuomo had sexually harassed multiple women over a seven-year period, the prosecutor came out strongly against him.
“No man, no matter how powerful, can harass women,” he said in a statement, so that the then-governor of New York resigned from office shortly after.
