The investigations outlined how Lopez (D - Brooklyn), once one of the Assembly's most powerful members, routinely groped and
harassed young female staffers.
Lopez, a party heavyweight, faces no criminal charges, but it is alleged that he sexually
harassed his young female staffers for years.
Lopez's decision to relinquish his chairmanship was only half of what his critics had called on him to do after the revelation that he had verbally and physically
harassed young female staffers — charges he has vehemently denied.
Not exact matches
Calls are mounting for Assemblyman / Brooklyn Democratic Chairman Vito Lopez to resign following his censure last week by Speaker Sheldon Silver after a bipartisan ethics committee determined he had sexually
harassed two
young female staffers.
The powerful assemblyman and Brooklyn Democratic Party chairman was brought down by allegations that he groped and
harassed young female legislative
staffers.
After the secret settlement, Lopez hired two more
young female staffers and
harassed them in the same manner, according to the ethics commission report.
Lopez resigned from the Assembly last month rather than face almost certain expulsion after a blockbuster report from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics accused him of sexually
harassing at least eight
young female staffers in recent years.