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‘Harassment case not unfounded’
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Posted on Jun 30 2004
The female attorney who had filed a sexual harassment complaint against CNMI chief prosecutor David Hutton said the Office of Personnel Management probe never found the complaint unfounded.
The attorney, whose name is being withheld, used to work for the Attorney General’s Office’s Criminal Division headed by Hutton.
The attorney’s lawyer, former AG Robert Torres, said in a media release that acting AG Clyde Lemons Jr.’s recent press statement that the complaint was unfounded was misleading.
“The OPM investigative report made no such finding that the charges were unfounded. The OPM report makes conclusions and recommendations, none of which have been released to the public for review or comment,” said Torres.
“If AGO would consent to the release of the OPM report, as the [attorney] is willing to do so in the spirit of full disclosure, then the facts and conclusions of the OPM report will be left for the public to decide what the OPM report really does say,” he added.
Torres said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has begun its separate investigation on his client’s sexual harassment complaint.
He said that, while his client resorted to the local administrative process by filing a complaint pursuant to the local Equal Employment and Sexual Harassment Policy, the attorney is also pursuing remedy under federal law.
Hutton had earlier refused to comment on the sexual harassment complaint filed by the female attorney before the OPM.
