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HRC Responds to Alphonso David Suit, Says There Was No Discrimination

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let go last year after it became known that he had advised then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on response to sexual harassment accusations against Cuomo.

David had been the governor’s in-house counsel before joining HRC. An investigation by New York’s attorney general’s office found at least some of the accusations credible and revealed David’s assistance.

Cuomo subsequently resigned as governor.David filed suit in February in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. “David’s treatment, including his summary termination, differed markedly from how his white predecessor [Chad Griffin] had been treated,” the suit states. “During the tenure of David’s predecessor, HRC had endured repeated, serious, scandals — many of which involved HRC’s mistreatment of Black and other marginalized individuals.

Nonetheless, HRC took no action against David’s predecessor let alone terminate him suddenly, ‘for cause.’ HRC underpaid David, and then terminated him, because he is Black.” The suit further contends that HRC was less than transparent about its internal investigation into David’s conduct and its reasons for terminating him.David maintained in the suit that he “did not believe he had done anything wrong” in assisting Cuomo and has said some of the work involved providing legal documents he was obligated to turn over as the governor’s former lawyer.

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