A staffer injured himself so badly giving oral sex to a state senator that he ended up in a wheelchair, a lawsuit claims.
Chad Condit claims that California state Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil had to push his wheelchair around a casino after he gave her oral sex in a cramped car seat. She continued to make sexual comments as she pushed him around the casino, he claims.
Condit has since recovered the use of his legs and is suing Alvarado-Gil for sexual harassment, retaliation and violation of California labor law.
State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil at the Capitol in Sacramento, California, on July 10, 2023. Alvarado-Gil denies an accusation that she sexually harassed a staffer.
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Newsweek sought email comment from attorneys for Condit and Alvarado-Gil and from Alvarado-Gil’s office on Tuesday.
Condit, who was Alvarado-Gil’s chief of staff, claims in the lawsuit that the senator created a hostile work environment that was leaden with sexual discussion.
“Alvarado-Gil also talked about other staff members’ sex lives to Plaintiff and showed him her phone showing another staff member’s location. She commented that the staff member was at a hotel f****** some guy,” the lawsuit alleges.
Condit claims that Alvarado-Gil sought oral sex from him as a way of showing his subordinate position. The lawsuit alleges that the last time he had to give her oral sex was at a staff retreat.
“During the last occasion where Plaintiff performed oral sex as demanded by Alvarado-Gil, Plaintiff suffered a back injury while performing in a car seat with his body having to twist and contort in the confined space of the car,” the lawsuit alleged. “Plaintiff later went to the doctor and discovered that the injury was more severe, and that Plaintiff had suffered three herniated discs in his back and a collapsed hip.”
The lawsuit says that, after being discharged from the hospital, Condit’s wife drove him to a staff retreat after-party at a casino.
“Alvarado-Gil took charge and pushed Plaintiff around the casino in a wheelchair,” then Alvarado-Gil made a sexual remark, the suit says.
“Alvarado-Gil appeared to enjoy her power and demanded this show of ‘loyalty’ on several occasions. There was no sexual intercourse. Rather, it was Alvarado-Gil treating this demand as a perk of her power and that Plaintiff would be a tool to service her continual demand asking if he would kiss it. Plaintiff was demeaned and made to feel empty and subordinate to his boss, a California state senator, with power over his career and livelihood,” according to the lawsuit.
Alvarado-Gil’s attorney, Ognian Gavrilov, has rejected the allegations made by Condit.
In a statement to The New York Post, Gavrilov called Condit a “disgruntled former employee” who is telling an “outlandish story.”
He said Condit’s allegations were “bogus, financially motivated claims.”
Alvarado-Gil is known for switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party in August, saying that the Democrats’ left-wing ideology made it unrecognizable from the party she joined.
