{"id":1986909,"date":"2023-07-31T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-mayors-office-inquiry-finds-former-chief-of-staff-sexually-harassed-second-woman\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T18:47:05","slug":"dc-mayors-office-inquiry-finds-former-chief-of-staff-sexually-harassed-second-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-mayors-office-inquiry-finds-former-chief-of-staff-sexually-harassed-second-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"DC mayor&#8217;s office investigation reveals ex-chief of staff&#8217;s sexual harassment of another woman."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdc-mayors-office-inquiry-finds-former-chief-of-staff-sexually-harassed-second-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1986909&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Chief of Staff to D.C.\u200c Mayor Accused of Sexual Harassment<\/h2>\n<p>The former chief of staff to\u200c Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser \u200bhas been accused of sexually harassing a woman \u200bmultiple times in 2020, according\u200d to an internal report.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor&#8217;s Office of Legal Counsel released a report on Monday, substantiating two allegations made\u2062 against John Falcicchio,\u200c the former chief of staff and deputy mayor to Bowser. Falcicchio, who had been a close\u200d adviser \u200cto the mayor for several years,\u200c resigned from his position in March. This report represents \u200bthe latest\u200b allegation against him, as\u2064 he has already been accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-cuomo-aide-makes-shocking-sexual-harassment-allegation\/\" title=\"Ex-Cuomo Aide Makes Shocking Sexual Harassment Allegation\">sexual harassment<\/a> \u2062by at least two D.C. employees.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Details of \u200bthe Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>The report provides details of four allegations, but only \u200ctwo of them were \u200bsubstantiated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u2064 first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-craziest-meeting-of-trump-era-top-trump-official-combatted-conspiracies-was-primed-to-brawl\/\" title=\"In \u2018Craziest Meeting\u2019 Of Trump-Era, Top Trump Official Combatted Conspiracies: \u2018Was Primed To Brawl\u2019\">substantiated claim<\/a> involves Falcicchio allegedly making unwelcome, physical, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lincoln-project-staffer-may-have-violated-campaign-finance-law-ethics-watchdog-says\/\" title=\"Lincoln Project Staffer May Have Violated Campaign Finance Law, Ethics Watchdog Says\">sexual advances<\/a> toward a woman in his\u200b apartment on four separate\u2062 occasions in 2020. The\u200c report states that the woman\u200c was at his apartment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dc-mayors-office-inquiry-finds-former-chief-of-staff-sexually-harassed-second-woman\/\" title=\"DC mayor's office investigation reveals ex-chief of staff's sexual harassment of another woman.\">work-related reasons<\/a> at his direction. It also mentions \u2064an additional incident of an unwanted\u2063 sexual advance at a different location.<\/li>\n<li>The second substantiated claim is that Falcicchio sent flirtatious messages to an anonymous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-calls-for-cuomo-to-face-impeachment-top-dems-distancing-from-ny-gov\/\" title=\"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls For Cuomo To Face Impeachment, Top Dems Distancing From NY Gov\">female employee<\/a> in 2020, asking \u2062personal questions about her romantic life in an attempt \u200dto manipulate her into feeling comfortable with him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report concludes\u200d that Falcicchio&#8217;s behavior\u2064 &#8220;more likely than \u200cnot \u2062constituted sexual \u2062harassment&#8221; and violated the D.C. mayor&#8217;s office policy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Following\u2064 Falcicchio&#8217;s departure, Lindsey Parker was hired as the new chief \u200dof staff to the mayor, and \u200bKeith Anderson was appointed as interim deputy \u200cmayor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Recommendations for Improvement<\/h3>\n<p>Upon concluding the investigation,\u2063 the report&#8217;s recommendations to the Mayor \u2064focused \u200bon enhancing policies and procedures to\u200c prevent sexual harassment \u2064and encourage reporting for timely and appropriate resolution of future\u200c issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read \u200dmore from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2064a separate report from the same \u2064office in June, \u2063two claims of sexual harassment by Falcicchio against another female employee of the\u200d D.C. government \u200bwere substantiated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An internal report released on Monday confirmed that John Falcicchio, the former chief of staff and deputy mayor to Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser, sexually harassed a woman on multiple occasions in 2020. The Mayor&#8217;s Office of Legal Counsel substantiated two allegations against Falcicchio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1986910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1986910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}