With all the talk about settling sexual lawsuits coming from Sheldon Silver and the Assembly the same thing goes on in the Senate. The state pays $90,000 to settle Senator Maziarz aide and close friend’s sexual harassment law suit. Glenn Aronow subjecting her “to a daily campaign of sexual harassment.” She also accused him of “sexually oriented physical contact, gestures, threats and unwanted exposure to pornographic materials,” according to her 2009 lawsuit in State Supreme Court.
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State pays Lancaster woman in sex harassment settlement
Lancaster woman accused Senate boss
The state has agreed to pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by an administrative assistant working for the State Senate Majority Office who accused a superior of subjecting her “to a daily campaign of sexual harassment.”
A 48-year-old Lancaster woman accused Glenn Aronow, a former Niagara County legislator, of making unwelcome and crude comments about her personal appearance beginning in October 2007 when she worked at the Senate office in downtown Buffalo.
She also accused him of “sexually oriented physical contact, gestures, threats and unwanted exposure to pornographic materials,” according to her 2009 lawsuit in State Supreme Court.
Under the settlement, the woman will receive $75,000, and her lawyer, Steven M. Cohen, will receive $15,000, according to court records.
Under the settlement, Aronow and the state admitted no wrongdoing but approved the settlement for the convenience of all parties.
In addition to suing Aronow, the woman sued the state, alleging that his superiors should have taken more timely and appropriate action against him but failed to do so.
The woman said in court papers that after “a particularly terrifying sexually harassing incident,” she was told that Aronow had been removed from the office and that she could safely return to work.
She returned to the office “only to be confronted by Aronow,” she said in her lawsuit.
