More than a year on, the saga of Tara Reade — the woman who accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her nearly thirty years ago, before being vilified by the liberal press — continues to be unrivaled in the post–Me Too era for the way it was treated and litigated. And newly released exhibits and testimony from the New York attorney general’s investigation into former governor Andrew Cuomo’s allegations of sexual harassment show it was something else, too: a potential model for other embattled politicians to bat away allegations of their own.

At its heart, the Cuomo sexual harassment story was a workplace tale as old as time: a boss uses his power to mistreat, demean, and try and coerce his underlings, who, because their jobs and future careers depend on staying in his good graces, have to find a way to fend off the harassment without alienating him. In Cuomo’s case, this behavior often took the form of clumsy, embarrassing sexual advances, along with even more serious cases of unwanted groping and kissing.

While the Cuomo administration scrambled to neutralize what would turn out to be career-ending allegations from eleven women, his staffers looked to the Biden campaign’s successful suppression of the Reade allegation for how to do so, raw exhibits and transcripts released last week from attorney general Letitia James’s investigation into the accusations show. As has been typical of coverage of Reade since she came forward, the revelations have so far been ignored entirely by every sector of the press except for conservative outlets hostile to Biden.