Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa has resigned. | Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
ALBANY — Melissa DeRosa, the top staffer to Gov. Andrew Cuomo since 2017, has resigned.
It’s undoubtedly the most significant loss for the Cuomo administration, even at the end of a week in which the governor has been condemned by everybody from the president to the state legislators who now have the votes to impeach him.
DeRosa has been widely viewed as Cuomo’s most trusted adviser and gained national fame when she occupied the seat next to him at last year’s pandemic briefings.
“Personally, the past 2 years have been emotionally and mentally trying,” DeRosa said in a statement first provided to NY1 on Sunday night. “I am forever grateful for the opportunity to have worked with such talented and committed colleagues on behalf of the state.”
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