The Cornell fraternity case that was coming apart at the seams this week has a new prosecutor.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order Thursday night appointing state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the alleged Cornell sexual assault case, effectively removing Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten from it.
"Tonight, I signed an executive order appointing Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the Cornell sexual assault case," Hochul posted on X. "New information has raised serious questions about how this case was handled, and I've lost faith in the Tompkins County DA's ability" to handle it.
Hochul said the newly released information "undercut my faith, and the public's faith" in the DA's ability to investigate and prosecute the case, and went further:
"Who knew what when? What did they do wrong? Why didn't they come forward? How was this woman denied justice?"
Her case against the locals rests on two claims. First, that the woman's own statement that she was raped "never made it into the account that Cornell po
