Tag: SEX SCANDALS
Professor offered me good grades to sleep with him
CUNY just can’t seem to keep pervy profs off the payroll.
In a shocking Brooklyn federal court lawsuit, a female undergraduate claims her human-anatomy professor at LaGuardia Community College, Hany Fam, offered her good grades for sex.
The case comes on the heels of bombshell allegations that professors at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice raped and tried to pimp out students and used and sold drugs on campus. The widening scandal, now being probed by the Manhattan D.A.’s office and the state Inspector General, was first revealed last month by The Post.
In the lawsuit, the 40-something student, going by the pseudonym Jane Doe, claims she asked Fam for a meeting in October 2017 to discuss grades. The prof, 60, insisted they meet at her apartment, court papers say.
“Fearing that she would offend her professor and perhaps jeopardize her grade in his class, [she] finally relented,” the suit says.
Fam arrived at her Brooklyn apartment and gave her a bottle of wine and a kiss on the cheek, court papers say. He sat on the couch and told her he was “lonely” and had “problems in his marriage,” the suit claims.
He “unbuttoned his shirt to reveal a scar and claimed to have a heart condition that left him with just a few years to live,” the suit says.
The student “got up and went to the kitchen, but Professor Fam followed her, leaned in to hug her, and told her to relax,” court papers say.
After pouring two glasses of wine — which the woman claims she refused to drink — Fam “said that he could make things much easier for her, and repeatedly asked if she would be his ‘friend,’” court papers say.
When the woman asked if “friend” was code for “sex,” he confirmed it was, according to the lawsuit.
“He suggested they meet once a week and told [her] it wouldn’t be ‘that hard’ for her because of his heart condition,” court papers say.
Taking his pitch one step further, Fam said other professors have similar arrangements with students, according to the lawsuit.
When the student made “unambiguous . . . expressions of disinterest,” the prof “became aggravated and told Plaintiff that she was too uptight,” the lawsuit says.
On his way out, Fam handed her “what appeared to be questions and answers for the following day’s scheduled quiz and told [her] to think about his offer.”
The woman did not return to Fam’s class and reported him to the college’s Title IX office, which handles sexual harassment complaints.
The college concluded that Fam “offered [her] a good grade … in exchange for sexual favors,” according to the lawsuit.
A LaGuardia spokeswoman told the Post the professors’s last day in the classroom was the day the student’s complaint was filed, Nov. 7, 2017, and that he was terminated on Jan. 11, 2018. He is “not eligible to work at LaGuardia any time in the future,” said spokeswoman Elizabeth Streich.
The public college located in Long Island City, which offers two-year associates degrees, also agreed to provide counseling for the woman, cover the costs of her course materials and re-enrollment in the class, but did not remove her “withdrawal” from the class on her transcript.
The woman — who is being represented by Carrie Goldberg, the Brooklyn lawyer backing at least two Harvey Weinstein accusers — claims her life has taken a dark turn because of the “emotional stress” of the ordeal. She “has even felt unsafe in her own home because Professor Fam knows where she lives,” the suit says.
The plaintiff told the Post she wants to maintain her anonymity because she is “scared of the repercussions.
“He’s obviously not a nice person, so I don’t know what lengths he might go to. It’s scary for a single woman who lives alone.”
She is seeking unspecified damages and a jury trial.
Court papers also claim Fam was part of a “wider culture of similar behavior by LaGuardia professors.”
In a review for Fam on the Rate My Professor website, a student wrote in October 2017 that he “wastes time on dirty jokes . . . I don’t know how to respect a professor who cracks dirty jokes all the time.”
Fam has been a lecturer at LaGuardia Community College and an adjunct associate professor at CUNY’s York College in Queens since at least 2012, according to SeeThroughNY. He earned $35,000 last year from LaGuardia and $14,000 from York.
Fam could not be reached for comment.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/10/13/professor-offered-me-good-grades-to-sleep-with-him-suit/
Ex-Trump staffer accused of slipping abortion pill into girlfriend’s smoothie
A former Trump campaign spokesperson was accused of slipping an abortion pill into his pregnant girlfriend’s smoothie — sending her to the hospital and nearly causing her to go into a coma, according to court documents.
Jason Miller — who served on President Trump’s 2016 campaign and transition team — announced he was quitting his role as CNN political commentator Saturday to “focus on clearing [his] name” and fighting the accusations detailed in recent court documents.
The explosive court filings, first reported by Splinter News, allege that prior to Miller’s high-profile extramarital relationship with A.J. Delgado — another Trump campaign staffer — he had an affair with an unnamed woman he met at Rachel’s Gentleman’s Club, an Orlando strip club.
When the dancer found out she was pregnant, Miller allegedly dosed her drink with an abortion pill, without her knowledge, according to the court documents.
The pill caused the woman to wind up in the emergency room “bleeding heavily and nearly went into a coma,” the documents state. She was hospitalized for two days with “the abortion pill possibly reacting with potential street drugs in her system” at the time she drank the smoothie, according to the documents.
When the alleged relationship began in 2012 Miller was working for the prominent Republican ad firm Jamestown Associates.
The court documents were filed Sept. 14 in Miami-Dade Circuit Court as part of an ongoing custody battle between Miller and Delgado. With the allegations entered into court record, Delgado asked for Miller to undergo psychological evaluation, saying she fears for their son’s safety.
“I’m concerned for my safety (more importantly, my son’s) with Miller and afraid of his reaction if I add comment,” she said to Splinter News.
Delgado conceived a son during an affair that began when she and married Miller were both working on the 2016 campaign. At the time, Miller’s wife was also pregnant with their second daughter.
In December of that year, President-elect Trump announced that he would be appointing Miller as his communications director, but Miller backed out two days later, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family.
In a series of tweets Saturday, Miller decried the filing as false, calling it part of Delgado’s “continuous attempts to smear me.” He accused Delgado of having mental and emotional issues and promised to clear his name and hold Delgado and Splinter accountable.
HIV-positive hairdresser allegedly cut tips off condoms to infect his Grindr dates
A hairdresser deliberately infected at least four men with HIV after meeting them on gay dating app Grindr — before sending them mocking messages, a court heard.
Daryll Rowe, 26, from Edinburgh, Scotland, is accused of embarking on a “cynical campaign” to infect as many men as he could with the virus.
He texted one of his alleged victims: “Maybe you have the fever cos I came inside you and I have HIV, lol. Whoops!”
The court heard Rowe also called one of his victims and laughed over the phone as he goaded the man about his potential diagnosis.
The victim later tested positive for HIV, with a strain of the virus similar to Rowe’s.
Another man Rowe had sex with said he used a condom, but found it discarded in the sink with the end ripped off.
Caroline Carberry QC, prosecuting, told Lewes Crown Court: “He was extremely concerned and upset about this and repeatedly asked Daryll Rowe whether he was clean, which he said he was. That condom did not split accidentally.”
Another alleged victim discovered he had the virus after feeling “feverish and ill.”
Rowe was diagnosed with HIV in Edinburgh in April 2015.
Later that year, he moved to Brighton.
“With full knowledge, putting others at risk, he embarked on what was a cynical and deliberate campaign to infect other men with the HIV virus.
“Unfortunately for some of the men he met, his campaign was successful.
“He had numerous, casual sexual relationships with men he met via Grindr.
“He deceived each of those men into believing he was HIV-negative.
“He reassured the men he was clean and when they insisted on a condom, he deliberately sabotaged the condom.
“Many of them were sent abusive and mocking messages.”
Carberry told the jury that Rowe met eight men in Sussex and two more in the northeast.
“At least four have contracted the virus, others were lucky not to,” she said.
“In all cases, it was his intention to infect those men with HIV.”
Sussex police arrested Rowe in February 2016 after two men were diagnosed as HIV-positive.
He refused to admit being HIV-positive and denied meting with or having sex with the two men.
Rowe was bailed to an address in Berwick, Northumberland.
He was interviewed again when other alleged victims came forward. After being re-bailed, Rowe went missing and police launched a manhunt to find him.
He was discovered living in Wallsend — some 350 miles north of Sussex — under a fake name.
The case, which is due to last six weeks, continues.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/06/hiv-positive-man-allegedly-tampered-with-condoms-to-infect-partners/
School Principal who had sex ‘dungeon’ in school’s office gets prison
A depraved British principal busted for ripping off tens of thousands of dollars from his school kept a secret sex lair inside his office, stocking it with a tawdry array of adult toys and booze, a court heard at his sentencing this week.
James Stewart, the principal and headteacher of Sawtry Village Academy for almost 30 years, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty last year to fraud, and misuse of office — for canoodling with his married assistant on campus, drinking during the day, and taking ski breaks and racing trips.
Witnesses at his trial said they would hear suspicious noises emanating from the “dungeon” he crafted in his inner office, including “rhythmic moaning and banging.”
The two were also seen “in a disheveled state with red wine stains around their mouths,” the Cambridge News reported.
Stewart’s office had a series of rooms that were lined with custom-made oak and glass shelving, furniture and doors, which were installed while the school went without inspections for asbestos and other checks.
Behind those doors, police found shelves of booze, a minifridge stocked with wine, adult toys — including a large purple vibrator — along with sex games, watermelon lubricant, condoms, a large packet of penis straws and coasters with scenes from the Karma Sutra on them. There were piles of cushions that might be spread on the floor like a bed. Two more vibrators were found in a desk drawer, officials said.
The principal, now 72, spent some $7,500 on hotel stays in London, during which he bought the adult toys, all paid for on his school credit card. He also racked up bills totaling about $65,000 on food and drink, including alcohol, in restaurants near his home, and ran up $14,000 in charges on electronics, including at least three TVs, DVD players, cameras and laptops, officials said. School funds were also used to pay personal expenses like car insurance and newspaper and magazine subscriptions.
When he was at the school, Stewart was often holed up in his office, and regularly drank heavily during the school day. He also frequently left the school to watch horse racing and to take ski trips, some of which were charged to the school.
Stewart, nabbed in 2014 after whistleblowing staff members reported his seedy conduct to British education authorities, has so far repaid the school about $100,000 of the $162,000 he ripped off.
Ex-vice principal Alan Stevens, 66, also admitted fraud after he was found to have hit the school with bogus expense and credit card claims worth about $600. He was sentenced to 24 weeks in prison, but it was suspended for 12 months.
The school was left in a “dire financial” position by the fraud, and had lost staff and was placed under special supervision by the time Stewart’s exploits were uncovered in 2014.
via: http://nypost.com/2017/10/07/principal-who-had-sex-dungeon-in-office-gets-prison/