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THREAD-"Mike Picarella wanted to protect a co-worker from humiliating sexual harassment. He didn't expect his own life to be destroyed in the process." by @ddayen highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/hs…
@ddayen "Mike began to detect a pattern. A few times a week, not long after the stock exchange’s closing bell, Eileen would beg Jill to come to Windfall with her. Jill would resist at first, but ultimately relent.
@ddayen "Then the next day, Mike said, dozens of people, including senior executives, would crowd around Eileen’s desk as she regaled them with stories that often revolved around Jill’s sexual adventures from the night before.
@ddayen "Eileen would try to be low-key when spreading these tales, but Jill sat only a few feet away. I would see [Jill] slam the phone and start crying,' Mike remembered.
@ddayen "In time, it became clear to Mike that Eileen didn’t just want a drinking buddy. He felt she was using Jill to attract senior executives and big clients to the bar...
@ddayen —and, five years later, when the matter finally landed in court, 900 pages of discovery documents and the testimony of several witnesses helped back up his account.
@ddayen “Haah … you just like blonds named [Jill],” Eileen wrote to a high-ranking HSBC manager. He replied, “well, i need to admit that she is hot!” Eileen promised to make Jill available when he visited New York the following month.
