Stripper sues Booby Trap, claims bouncer raped her instead of driving her home

Booby Trap strip clubs have been subject of numerous state and federal lawsuits claiming violations of workplace protections and my client is another victim.

“For people who will say she had this coming because she was a dancer, that’s medieval thinking… My client did not give consent.”

Former Police Academy recruit claims sexualized atmosphere at NYPD training facility 

Screen Shot 2019-08-07 at 12.49.15 AMMy brave client and I stepped forward to share her story of how the NYPD forces women to “Play the Game” of submitting to sexual harassment & flirtation. She told NY Daily, “I just want the people to know they can speak up. Something needs to be done.” The former NYPD recruit who was sexually harassed during her training at the NYPD Academy explained in the article, “You had better date, have sex, whatever it is, if you want to graduate and if you want to get into a good precinct. If you don’t do that, you are going to get bullied.”

Female former NYPD cadet was ‘encouraged to have sex with instructors to pass the training and was physically bullied and terminated after she refused’

  • Glenda Mejia, 37, was started the NYPD police academy in 2014 and fired in 2015
  • Mejia filed lawsuit in 2017 alleging that she was sexually harassed by instructors
  • She claimed that she was encouraged to have sex with instructors and when she refused she was punished by grueling workouts
  • Workouts were so bad that she ‘developed shin splints and fractures in her leg’
  • Mejia said she was subsequently fired from department and no one told her why
  • News of her lawsuit comes a week after Sgt Michael Anderson was transferred
  • Anderson, an NYPD Academy instructor was transferred from academy in Queens to a transit command for having extramarital affair with a police cadet
  • The 51-year-old Sgt was not named in Mejia’s lawsuit; he remains on full duty

NY State Workers Keep Jobs Despite Costly Settlements 

I am so proud of my brave client for her willingness to talk about her case against the State of New York with NBC New York investigators. This case was never about money for my client, it was about notifying the government of what she saw as a problem and risk to herself and others. She accomplished that by standing up for herself and by taking legal action.

Unfortunately, for health reasons, she had to leave her career as a rehabilitation counselor with the state’s Office of Mental Health and settled her case. It was disheartening for us both to see that no one admitted wrongdoing and that Burke remains employed by the state. While her settlement is just a drop in the bucket of what the state has paid in settling lawsuits against state employees accused of sexual harassment or gender discrimination, I hope by telling her story policy changes for the better.

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Former Assistant at Ex-Inmate’s Law Firm Files Workplace Harassment Lawsuit  

One of my #SexualHarassment cases is getting some national attention (at least in the legal community). We made 1st page of New York Law Journal and Law360.com  (LAW 360: Atty Failed To Protect Secretary From Harassment, Suit Says ) also ran a story this morning. #MeToo