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TexasTowelie

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Wed Sep 21, 2016, 11:17 PM Sep 2016

Philadelphia Parking Authority boss ticketed after sexual harassment investigation

What does it take to keep your job after sexually harassing your employee for two years?

Vincent J. Fenerty Jr., executive director of the Philadelphia Parking Authority, can answer that question.

For Fenerty, it took $30,000 - to foot the bill of an independent investigation into his inappropriate behavior. After being reprimanded by the authority's board for a sexual harassment campaign against a senior employee last year, he was also curbed of the power to carry out the responsibilities he was hired to do.

Fenerty, who is paid $223,000 a year to run the $245 million agency, is no longer allowed to go on overnight work trips with other employees without permission from his board. To spend the night, he must submit a list of who else is going.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160922_Parking_Authority_boss_ticketed_after_sexual_harassment_investigation.html

[font color=330099]Why did I post this run-of-the-mill sexual harassment lawsuit? Well,, "Fenerty, who is also a Republican ward leader, has worked at the authority since 1983 and served as its executive director since 2005."[/font]

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