Sentences with phrase «harassed young staffers»

Vito Lopez served in the Assembly from 1985 to 2013, when he resigned ahead of a vote of the chamber to expel him after the state ethics commission had released a bombshell report that showed he had routinely sexually harassed young staffers in his office.

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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.

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.

Lopez, a party heavyweight, faces no criminal charges, but it is alleged that he sexually harassed his young female staffers for years.

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.

The investigations outlined how Lopez (D - Brooklyn), once one of the Assembly's most powerful members, routinely groped and harassed young female staffers.