The Cornell Case Is Being Turned Into a Political Weapon
Podcasts > LARRY with Larry O'Connor
Friday, October 2, 2026
Four weeks before Election Day, Gov. Kathy Hochul has named Attorney General Letitia James as "independent special prosecutor" in the Cornell University sexual assault case. No criminal charges were filed after the first review, and the case came back after reporting on a civil lawsuit. Larry looks at the press conference, at how Hochul, James and AOC all treat the lawsuit's claims as established fact, and at the Facebook post where James called the accuser a victim before her own investigation began. Asked about it, James said: "I will not comment on a Facebook post."
Larry's question isn't who did it. It's whether a crime happened at all, and that's the exact question James seems to have answered already.
