But new details from a woman who has accused one of Ms. James’s top aides of harassment have raised questions about whether the attorney general lived up to her words when the accused was one of her closest associates.

The woman, Sofia Quintanar, a former aide to Ms. James, said in an interview that she decided to come forward because she believed that the attorney general was protecting her longtime chief of staff, Ibrahim Khan, and withholding any public finding of wrongdoing rather than aggressively pursuing the investigation.

“I find it just appalling to see how the office handled this publicly,” Ms. Quintanar, 33, told The New York Times in her first public interview about her interaction with Mr. Khan. She said that she decided to come forward because she believed that Ms. James’s office took more care to protect Mr. Khan than the women who accused him of abuse, allowing him to quietly submit his resignation in November with his reputation intact.