{"id":362404,"date":"2026-10-02T01:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362404\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:36:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:36:48","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-governor-appoints-special-prosecutor-to-oversee-investigation-of-alleged-gang-rape-at-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/362404\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Governor Appoints Special Prosecutor To Oversee Investigation Of Alleged Gang Rape At Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to oversee an investigation into a woman\u2019s allegations that she was raped at a Cornell University fraternity house, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney\u2019s ability to handle the case.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hochul said she had signed an executive order appointing the office of Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cNewly released information continues to raise serious questions about the investigation conducted by the Cornell Police Department and the decision by the Tompkins County District Attorney not to prosecute an alleged sexual assault on Cornell University\u2019s campus in October 2024,\u201d Hochul said. \u201cThis has, in turn, undercut my faith, and the public\u2019s faith, in the District Attorney\u2019s ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case at this time<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hochul said the attorney general would oversee the investigation and, if warranted, present evidence to a grand jury.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThe young woman at the center of this case deserves to know that every fact will be examined and justice pursued. This action will ensure that the matter is fully and thoroughly investigated without conflict or bias, and handled independently with the rigor that this matter demands.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to oversee an investigation into a woman\u2019s allegations that she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-362404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}