Sentences with phrase «young female staffer»

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

After the secret settlement, Lopez hired two more young female staffers and harassed them in the same manner, according to the ethics commission report.

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

The allegations against him include asking young female staffers to massage him and join him in hotel rooms.

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.

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.

Lopez controlled the organization with a tight hand until 2012, when allegations emerged that he had groped and sexually intimidated two 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.

In the Times report, Manhattan Assemblyman Michael Kellner was accused of having a flirtatious and inappropriate online communication with a young female staffer in 2009.

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.

Her sole example is that she turned over a complaint in 2012 that then - Hempstead Town Clerk Mark Bonilla had made unwanted advances on a young female staffer.

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.

A source tells the DN Assemblyman Micah Kellner created a «terrible poisonous situation» in his office after his advances on a young female staffer were rebuffed four years ago.

Among the numerous allegations in the report, are that Lopez, provided money for young female staffers to purchase sexier clothing like short skirts and low - cut blouses to wear in the office.

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.