A top aide to the governor has resigned amid sexual harassment allegations. The question is: How much did Shapiro know?
In an interview with POLITICO, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he could not respond directly to several questions, including when he first learned of the complaint and whether he asked Mike Vereb to leave. | Matt Rourke/AP PhotoBEDFORD, N.H. — As Gov. Josh Shapiro takes his first concrete steps on the national stage, a cloud of a scandal involving one of his former top aides is emerging back home.
In an interview with POLITICO, Shapiro said he could not respond directly to several questions, including when he first learned of the complaint and whether he asked Vereb to leave. But he pointed to his history of fighting sexual harassment and abuse. Vereb’s accuser declined a request for an interview. The woman’s lawyer, Chuck Pascal, would not comment on the interview statement and PHRC complaint’s authenticity or whether his client had entered into a settlement or non-disclosure agreement. POLITICO was able to confirm the documents’ authenticity.
The accuser, whose name POLITICO is withholding, said in the statement that she began working for the Shapiro administration in January and took the job because the governor “is a one-of-a-kind leader.” In February, she said, she was in a meeting with Vereb and other aides when a female senator came up in conversation. She said Vereb said he “had a way of handling” the senator, and explained that at one point in her office “he could have sworn she wanted to have sex with him.
She said Vereb also told her, “If you decided you wanted to do that, and go close the door to this office, tell me to bend you over this conference table, hike your skirt up, and fuck you from behind, that would be our decision to make.” During the Human Resources meeting in March, the accuser said she told officials about the rumors involving Vereb as well as other concerns.
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