Sentences with phrase «of young female staffers»

Lopez's alleged physical and verbal harassment of young female staffers - accusations of which he insists he's innocent - have already gotten him censured and cost him both his Assembly Housing Committee chairmanship and post as Brooklyn Democratic leader.

Since Vito couldn't be moved from church to church (i.e., Assembly district to Assembly district), Silver let Vito run an «assembly» line of young female staffers (ripe for the picking) through his office.

Not exact matches

This will be the speaker's first public appearance since he abruptly announced Lopez had been censured and stripped of his seniority after the bipartisan legislative ethics committee found the Brooklyn Democrat had made unwanted verbal and physical advances toward several young female 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.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- The New York assemblyman accused of asking young female staffers to massage him, touch his cancerous tumors and join him in hotel rooms said Saturday he will resign rather than possibly be expelled from the Legislature amid sexual harassment allegations.

A day after it was revealed that a staffer accused him of making inappropriate and sexually suggestive remarks to a young female staffer during online chats, a source said his full - court romantic press also caused problems when he was an intern for Sen. Charles Schumer sometime between 2000 - 2002.

It was under that system that Bill Collins, then counsel to the speaker, received complaints about Kellner, along with transcripts of his online chats with a young female staffer.

Assemblyman Micah Kellner, a Manhattan Democrat now running for New York City Council, was accused four years ago of inappropriate online communication with a young female staffer.

Then, in 2001, Silver's chief counsel, Michael Boxley, was accused of rape against yet another young female staffer.

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.

In recognition of recent reports of sexual harassment by young female political staffers, Bill C - 65 will also expand these protections to include parliamentary and political staff.