HRC Settles Lawsuit with Alphonso David

metroweekly.com:

voted to terminate David in September 2021 after he was accused of providing the confidential personnel file of Lindsey Boylan to aides of ex-N.Y.

Governor Andrew Cuomo. Boylan, a former Cuomo staffer, had accused the governor of sexual harassment. The aides leaked the file, including workplace complaints about Boylan, to media outlets, in an attempt to discredit her.The incident involving David was detailed in a report issued by New York Attorney General Letitia James investigating allegations of sexual misconduct against Cuomo, for whom David had served as in-house counsel before joining HRC.

David, who had been serving as president of HRC for two years, claimed that he did nothing wrong, and in fact had a legal obligation to hand over the document in question, which he has characterized as a copy of a memo he helped craft about his time investigating and counseling Boylan over an alleged workplace conflict in which she was involved.

The internal office conflict was unrelated to Boylan’s claims that Cuomo harassed her.Faced with the allegations against David — and the negative press that resulted from those being made public — the boards of HRC and the HRC Foundation hired law firm Sidley Austin LLP to conduct a 30-day internal investigation into the matter.The results of the investigation were never made public.