Sentences with phrase «female staffers came»
Once a major power broker in Albany, Mr. Lopez was stripped of his committee chairmanship and pressured to resign his seat after several female staffers came forward to charge that the Brooklyn pol forcefully groped, kissed and threatened them.
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One of those seats is being sought by Assemblywoman Shelley Mayer, who recently came under fire for allegedly discouraging two female Senate staffers from reporting sexual harassment when she served as the counsel to the Senate Democrats.
Esty came under fire for allowing her chief of staff to stay on the job for months after learning that a female staffer had complained he'd punched her and threatened to kill her.
The report comes a day after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver fired a top counsel because he failed to take action against Kellner in 2009 when Kellner made unwanted advances to a female staffer.
After an official investigation concluded last week that the state Legislature, under Silver's direction, paid two female staffers $ 103,000 to stay quiet about Lopez's crude come - ons, two other staffers believe they would not have been harassed had the speaker acted more aggressively, the New York Post reported.