Best management perpetuated an ‘Animal residence’ frat party surroundings at the office, which acts indigent clients experiencing unlawful fees
Four workers in the San Bernardino state Public Defendera€™s company bring filed a lawsuit alleging a historical tradition of intimate harassment and misconduct by best control at the office, where they demand problems fell on deaf ears.
The suit, filed Friday, Nov. 5, in lime state Superior Court, names the state and previous people Defender Gregory Christopher a€?Chrisa€? Gardner as defendants. And even though perhaps not known defendants, accusations of intimate harassment and misconduct in addition were lodged against other leading officials in the office, like fundamental Deputy people Defenders Jennie Cannady and Geoffrey Canty and Supervising Deputy community Defenders Mark Shoup and Richard LaFianza.
Gardner, in line with the lawsuit, utilized his place as public defender to control jobs assignments for certain feminine workforce a€?as a subterfuge to get sex from feminine subordinates.a€? He allegedly carried on an extramarital affair with investigator Stacy Thacker, which promises she is coerced inside commitment.
Gardner took Thacker to a seminar, at taxpayersa€™ expenditure, in which the guy plied their with alcoholic beverages and a€?took the girl to an accommodation a€¦ to engage himself sexually together with her,a€? the suit promises. Whenever Thacker refused Gardnera€™s progress, factors allegedly got aggressive. Continue reading “Lawsuit alleges extensive intimate misconduct at San Bernardino district Public Defendera€™s Office”