July 03, 2014
Former New York State Assembly powerbroker Vito Lopez, who resigned amid allegations of lecherous conduct toward female staffers, asked a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday to sever civil harassment allegations against him from those leveled against his former boss, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan.
June 11, 2014
A New York federal judge declined Tuesday to dismiss Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, from a lawsuit filed by two female legislative aides who claim the lawmaker fostered a workplace that tolerated sexual harassment.
June 07, 2013
Two women who said they worked for disgraced Brooklyn Democrat Vito Lopez filed state and federal sexual harassment cases on Thursday, claiming that Lopez and Speaker Sheldon Silver orchestrated a hush-money payout that allowed Lopez to continued abusing his female staffers.