No quite that bad, but a local pizza place (Rocky Rococo’s) took too long for someone to get their order, so they pepper sprayed the cashier through the drive through window. As far as I know, they were never caught.
And now that I’m looking, they did catch her and charged her with battery.
A female JP Morgan executive has been accused of repeatedly forcing sex on a male subordinate, roofy-ing him, stalking him, and threatening his job and threatening his family with ICE.
There is an added amount of horror with the Daily Mail’s choice to describe the sexual predator as “glamorous”.
It’s not a quote from anyone. It was an editorial choice.
The Daily Mail has been doing some bizarrely good investigative reporting lately (they also broke the Bryon Noem story and did a big expose about ICE’s hiring practices last year), but I guess they still can’t help but be a trashy tabloid at heart.
The lawsuit has been withdrawn.
Even the New York Post, while reveling in the salacious details, smelled a rat.
I mean, “we investigated ourselves and decided we didn’t do anything wrong” isn’t really the most compelling debunking.
I can fix her. Give her my number.
(Yes, I know the suit was withdrawn. Give her my number anyway)
When even the scandal-sniffing N.Y. Post is suspicious of the story, the alleged harasser turns out not to be the complainant’s boss and the lawsuit gets dropped, it might be reasonable to wonder about the veracity of the initial complaint.
If that was the entire article, sure. But there was a lot more than that. The article did continue past the first paragraph, after all.
The fact that they reported to different people, and he wasn’t a subordinate to her in any way, that on its own pretty much makes his whole allegation fall apart. Not to mention the fact that the accuser refused to provide any evidence of his claims when asked to do so.
It looks like there was hope that there would be a rush to settle and keep things quiet before anyone actually checked to see if the accusations were even plausible. That isn’t what happened, so the lawsuit was withdrawn.
(ETA: It looks like the suit wasn’t withdrawn, just the court document that spurred the original story; it was withdrawn for “corrections”, whatever that means.)
I don’t like the scare quotes both articles used on that word. I’d like to see something more substansive before deciding that the story was made up from whole cloth.
What a flaming shitweasel - this false accuser.
From NY Post article…
They aren’t scare quotes, they’re actual quotes. That’s the language the court usres.
A court representative told PEOPLE on Friday, May 1, that the complaint had been “returned for correction” and was no longer publicly available, but they could not provide further details.
And it looks like the suit was withdrawn; I was correct originally and corrected myself unnecessarily. The document that was removed was the one making the complaint, and the basis for the suit.
It’s unclear if and when the suit may be refiled and with what changes.
(Obviously IANAL or I’d have understood that better.)
My guess is that the guy is going to slink away and continue on in his new job at his new company, hoping this is all forgotten.
Who the fuck would hire this Shitheel?
Apparently Bregal Sagemount would; it’s an investment firm in New York City.
Although now that the story has been published, his employment might not last.
As long as the original complaint hasn’t been “dismissed with prejudice” – i.e., barred by court order from attempting to renew the suit – the plaintiff can seek the court’s permission to file an amended complaint.
My hope is that he is sued into oblivion and loses his job and ends up working cleaning the fry fat at a chicken joint.
Still seems a little premature to me to read “the accused denied it and the suit was withdrawn for corrections” as “he made all of it up and none of it is true”.
IF he indeed fabricated the entire thing, then that changes who the evil MFer in this situation is, but I don’t see where all of this confidence in making that declaration is coming from.
His story makes no sense. She had no power over him.
Not being able to make good on a threat doesn’t mean you can’t still make it.
I’ll add that none of us have actually seen the text of the complaint itself, just the Mail’s characterization of it, so exactly what it is that needs to be corrected is unknowable right now.