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Follow the wives? Former aide to Councilman Jose Huizar files lawsuit alleging an affair, retaliation and 'ethical violations'

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-huizar-harassment-lawsuit-20181023-story.html

>A former staffer with Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar is suing the city of Los Angeles, alleging she faced retaliation after voicing concerns that her boss was having an affair with an aide and committing “potential legal and ethical violations.”

>Mayra Alvarez, who left the councilman’s office in July, said she was demoted and had her responsibilities scaled back after she complained that staffers had been assigned to work during city time on the upcoming council campaign of Huizar’s wife, Richelle Huizar.

Then look up the wife and she's an "advocate for children"

https://hcidla.lacity.org/richelle-huizar

>Richelle Rae Huizar is a long-time advocate for children, youth and families. She has utilized her legal skills for more than 20 years to improve the lives of young people and the communities they live in.

>Richelle currently works as a consultant for Vanderford and Ruiz, a mid-sized law firm in Pasadena, California. Previously, Richelle worked as the Development Director for Bishop Mora Salesian College Preparatory, a Catholic high school in the Boyle Heights community of Los Angeles.

>Richelle also created and implemented children and family policy for the City of Los Angeles for more than ten years. She first served as a policy director, and then as Assistant Executive Director of the Los Angeles City Commission for Children, Youth and Their Families. Richelle was responsible for a team whose role was to use data and research to drive policy changes, develop innovative community solutions and build lasting partnerships across various government jurisdictions.

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Jose has been busy

December 20, 2013|By James Rainey

L.A. Councilman Huizar accused of groping woman in 2005

L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar, sued in October by a former City Hall aide, was investigated by Pasadena police in 2005 over a massage therapist's allegation, records show

Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar, recently accused by a former top aide of pressuring her for sex and retaliating when she rebuffed him, was the subject of a 2005 criminal investigation in which a Pasadena massage therapist said Huizar groped her, according to records and interviews.

At the time of the complaint, Huizar was president of the Los Angeles school board and was running for City Council.

The Pasadena Police Department recently released a summary of its investigation in response to a state Public Records Act request by The Times.

According to the summary, an employee of the Burke Williams spa in Old Town Pasadena said that on the evening of April 9, 2005, "the suspect grabbed [her] legs during the massage and attempted to pull her toward the massage table. Additionally, at the conclusion of the massage, the suspect grabbed the victim's leg, arm and breast."

The complainant, who was not identified, gave the name of her alleged assailant as Jose Huizar, according to the summary. Police investigated the incident as a possible misdemeanor sexual battery, said Lt. Tracey Ibarra, a Police Department spokeswoman.

The woman did not definitively identify Huizar, or eliminate him as a suspect, when police showed her an array of photos that included one of him, Ibarra said. But by the time the matter reached the Pasadena city prosecutors' office, she made it clear her attacker was Huizar, said Connie Orozco, who then supervised the office.

The woman later decided she did not want to proceed with the complaint, and the prosecutor's office did not file charges.