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Andrew Feinberg
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A California lawmaker who abruptly crossed the aisle final month and switched her celebration allegiance from Democrat to Republican is accused of treating her prime aide like a intercourse slave, at one level demanding oral intercourse from the married 57-year-old, who claims he herniated three discs in his again whereas finishing up the task.
“I would like you to kiss it and show your loyalty,” State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, 50, advised former Chief of Workers Chad Condit throughout a piece journey, in accordance with a civil go well with filed in Sacramento County Superior Court docket.
The 2 have been driving to Inyo County after they pulled over so Condit, who unsuccessfully ran for state meeting in 2022 and started working for Alvarado-Gil in July of that yr, might use the restroom, the lawsuit states. When he bought again to the automobile, Alvarado-Gil’s pants have been down and he or she “had her legs unfold and turned in the direction of him exposing her vagina,” the go well with goes on.
“Her route was for him to undergo her demand and to orally pleasure her vagina,” the go well with contends. “After months of making a dominant-submissive relationship, [Condit] was numbed and acted with out considering and it went from there with Alvarado-Gil establishing her potential to dominate him. [Condit] briefly carried out as demanded till she was glad by his submission to her.”
Condit’s lawsuit, which was filed September 5, says he threw out his again and badly injured his hip whereas servicing his boss, as a consequence of “having to twist and contort within the confined area of the automobile.”
Alvarado-Gil “demanded this present of ‘loyalty’ on a number of events,” however the two by no means had intercourse, in accordance with the go well with.
Reached for touch upon Monday, Alvarado-Gil’s legal professional Ognian Gavrilov advised The Impartial, “My remark is {that a} disgruntled former worker has fabricated an outlandish story, introduced with out proof, to get a payday. We anticipate that the senator shall be totally cleared of any wrongdoing of those bogus, financially motivated claims.”
Condit’s legal professional didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Condit, whose congressman father Gary was accused in 2001 of getting an affair with an intern who was later discovered murdered, says in his lawsuit that Alvarado-Gil advised him that she “assumed [he] could be like his father — insinuating that he needs to be open to a sexual relationship along with her.” (Gary Condit by no means publicly admitted to the affair and was by no means charged in reference to the younger girl’s demise.)
Alvarado-Gil repeatedly crossed the road with Condit in different methods, insisting he get a haircut from her aspiring cosmetologist daughter, stroll her canine, and discover jobs for her relations, the lawsuit claims. She requested Condit if he was into “throuples,” and expressed her desire for “quick Black males and outdated white guys like [Condit],” in accordance with the go well with.
As soon as, following “a crab feed in Mariposa,” Condit’s go well with claims Alvarado-Gil stripped all the way down to a T-shirt and tried to seduce him, telling him he “appeared like Brad Pitt.” In Might 2023, in the course of the annual frog-jumping occasion on the California capitol, Alvarado-Gil named her frog “Chad,” the lawsuit alleges.
By the summer time of 2023, different staffers have been threatening to give up over what they considered as Alvarado-Gil’s preferential remedy of Condit, the lawsuit contends. He then made clear to Alvarado-Gil that he was not comfy with the way in which issues have been, and tried to create some area between himself and her. After Condit communicated his issues, Alvarado-Gil not solely “falsely” advised his spouse he was seeing another person, she started laying the groundwork to fireplace him, the lawsuit states.
On the finish of 2023, after Alvarado-Gil humiliated Condit — who by then was recovering from hip surgical procedure — by convicing him to put on a Santa Claus outfit to a celebration the place, it turned out, nobody else was in costume, she terminated him by way of textual content message, in accordance with the go well with. His final day of labor was December 31.
Condit now suffers from “moments of whole despair, complications, fatigue, guilt and disgrace, and seeks to keep away from family and friends, his lawsuit states. “He confirmed the indicators and signs of abuse, changing into numb, emotionally indifferent and depressed. The truth that he’s a person, doesn’t take away from the disgrace at being put into submission by his boss.”
The 2 sides are subsequent scheduled to seem in court docket on October 17.
