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Armstrong Williams named in sexual harassment suit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ong-williams-named-in-sexual-harassment-suit/
Armstrong Williams, a media entrepreneur and central figure in the failed presidential campaign of Ben Carson, stands accused of sexual harassment and retaliation from a former sales associate at a local Jos. A. Bank store.
Charlton Woodyard, in a complaint lodged in D.C. federal court, seeks unspecified damages from Williams for seeking to “control Mr. Woodyard financially, professionally, and emotionally.” The end result of this effort, notes the suit, was that Williams “abused his power to attempt to exploit [Woodyard] sexually.” The sequence of events outlined in the complaint starts in the spring of 2013, when Woodyard was 26 and working at Union Station’s Jos. A. Bank. Williams struck up a conversation with the sales associate and invited him early the next morning to his office, where they worked together for the whole day. Williams is a Sirius XM radio host and owner of seven television stations across the country.
Not long thereafter, Woodyard bagged his job selling much-derided discount suits, a step that Williams allegedly “enticed” him to take, according to the complaint. What followed is a baroque sequence of allegations against Williams: First, he “assured” Woodyard that he’d thrive if he followed his career advice; he paid for some of Woodyard’s expenses — some meals, dry cleaning, Uber, for example — though stopped short of placing him on the payroll; he set up a private meeting for Woodyard with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; he insisted that Woodyard accompany him to workouts at Capitol Hill’s Results Gym, the locus for this particular detail in the complaint: “While at the gym, Mr. Williams pressured Mr. Woodyard to accompany him into the men’s steam room after exercising.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ong-williams-named-in-sexual-harassment-suit/
Armstrong Williams, a media entrepreneur and central figure in the failed presidential campaign of Ben Carson, stands accused of sexual harassment and retaliation from a former sales associate at a local Jos. A. Bank store.
Charlton Woodyard, in a complaint lodged in D.C. federal court, seeks unspecified damages from Williams for seeking to “control Mr. Woodyard financially, professionally, and emotionally.” The end result of this effort, notes the suit, was that Williams “abused his power to attempt to exploit [Woodyard] sexually.” The sequence of events outlined in the complaint starts in the spring of 2013, when Woodyard was 26 and working at Union Station’s Jos. A. Bank. Williams struck up a conversation with the sales associate and invited him early the next morning to his office, where they worked together for the whole day. Williams is a Sirius XM radio host and owner of seven television stations across the country.
Not long thereafter, Woodyard bagged his job selling much-derided discount suits, a step that Williams allegedly “enticed” him to take, according to the complaint. What followed is a baroque sequence of allegations against Williams: First, he “assured” Woodyard that he’d thrive if he followed his career advice; he paid for some of Woodyard’s expenses — some meals, dry cleaning, Uber, for example — though stopped short of placing him on the payroll; he set up a private meeting for Woodyard with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas; he insisted that Woodyard accompany him to workouts at Capitol Hill’s Results Gym, the locus for this particular detail in the complaint: “While at the gym, Mr. Williams pressured Mr. Woodyard to accompany him into the men’s steam room after exercising.
