People v. Williams

OPINION OF THE COURT

Emily Jane Goodman, J.

The Regional Attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the defendant, is charged by the complainant, an attorney on his staff, with the violation of harassment (Penal Law §240.25). The complainant alleges that during a meeting between the two, the defendant became verbally abusive, threatened her with harm, lunged at her, pointed his finger and fist at her in a threatening manner, pushed her with his chest and stomped on her foot. The alleged harassment took place in an office of the legal division of the New York District…