Update to this disgusting story.
Via NY Times:
The sordid details of how a once-powerful Brooklyn politician pawed, groped and taunted young women on his staff are more than an indictment of one politician, Assemblyman Vito Lopez. They provide a galling picture of the way Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker and one of New York’s top legislative leaders, failed to provide an environment in which young women could work without fear of being sexually assaulted by a bully like Mr. Lopez.
The degrading abuse of at least eight women, as outlined in a harrowing ethics report released on Wednesday, should enrage members of the Assembly enough to expel Mr. Lopez from public office immediately, not wait for his promised resignation in June. Assembly Democrats should also seize the opportunity to remove Mr. Silver from a leadership post he has occupied since 1994 and is clearly no longer fit to hold. It should not be beyond their capacities to find an honorable leader who cares more about the public than about Albany’s seedy status quo.