Assistant AG files sexual harassment complaint

An assistant attorney general filed an internal office complaint of sexual harassment against two former high-level staffers, fired in the wake of a scandal that led to the resignation of Marc Dann.

Jessica L. Urban, an assistant AG in the charitable law department, told The Vindicator on Wednesday that she’s “gone through some pretty horrible stuff.”

In the complaint filed Tuesday, Urban wrote she was sexually harassed by Leo Jennings III of Poland, the office’s former communications director; and Anthony Gutierrez of Liberty, the office’s ex-director of general services; when the two worked for Dann.

Urban, 30, told The Vindicator that she had a relationship with Jennings, 52, between September 2007 and this past March. Because of Jennings’ close friendship with Dann, a Democrat from Liberty Township, Urban said she “didn’t feel I could say ‘no’ [to the relationship] because there would have been repercussions,” such as being fired.

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