Morgan Stanley Hit By “Sex Pencil” Suit

Can’t write…too…many…puns….
From the NY Post:

A Long Island woman says her boss at Morgan Stanley gave a creepy new meaning to the term “pencil pusher.”
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Lisa LaMacchia claims Richard Dorfman groped her and then tried to “sexually assault her” with a pencil.
When she complained to his bosses at the financial giant’s Melville office, she got no help, says the suit, which seeks unspecified money damages from Dorfman and Morgan Stanley.
A rep for Morgan Stanley said the company had not seen the suit and had no comment. Dorfman could not be reached, and LaMacchia, 31, declined comment.
She went to work for Morgan Stanley in 2004, the year the company settled a federal sexual-discrimination suit filed on behalf of more than 300 female employees for $54 million.
Her duties included filing papers and answering phones for Dorfman, a “hostile and aggressive” boss who once stole a pair of underwear from her gym bag, she claims.
In July 2005, the suit says, Dorfman called her “a f- – -ing bitch” and threw a file at her.
Human relations told her to “suck it up,” the suit says.
A few months later, when she complained about not getting a raise, Dorfman allegedly “put his right hand up” her skirt and groped her.
She confronted him an hour later, and he “smiled and replied for her to receive what was due, ‘f- – -ing him wouldn’t be a bad idea,’ ” the papers say.
When she turned to leave, he put his hand up her skirt again, this time with a pencil in his hand in an attempt to sexually assault her with the object,” the suit says.
She eventually went on leave because of “emotional distress,” according to the suit.
“Before her leave expired, Ms. LaMacchia was terminated” in April 2006, the papers say.

Posted by on July 10th, 2007 at 10:18 am


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