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Chad Condit, the former chief of staff for California State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil, filed a lawsuit against his ex-employer this month, alleging that his back was injured during an incident where Alvarado-Gil made him perform oral sex in a car.
Condit – the son of former California Rep. Gary Condit, who was embroiled in a mystery surrounding a murdered intern – alleged in his lawsuit last Thursday that he was the victim of sexual harassment and unlawful retaliation from Alvarado-Gil, and accused the state senator of hurting his back during a sexual incident in a car.
The lawsuit claimed that after Condit returned to the car following a trip to the bathroom, Alvarado-Gil greeted him with her “legs spread.”
“She had her pants pulled down and said, ‘I want you to kiss it and prove your loyalty.’ She had her legs spread and turned towards him exposing her vagina,” claimed the lawsuit. “Her direction was for him to submit to her demand and to orally pleasure her vagina.”
Condit claimed that since Alvarado-Gil had created a “dominant-submissive relationship” between the two, he complied and “briefly performed as demanded until she was satisfied by his submission to her.”
As a result of the incident, however, Condit allegedly injured his back so badly that he was briefly bound to a wheelchair.
“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 claimed. “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 went on to allege that after Condit “began to refuse and object” to Alvarado-Gil’s demands, the state senator tried to ruin his marriage.
“ALVARADO-GIL said that PLAINTIFF would not work for anyone but her, which confirmed the threat to his job security and public employee position posed by refusing her sexualized behavior and demands,” the lawsuit claimed. “After PLAINTIFF communicated his opposition, ALVARADO-GIL went to PLAINTIFF’s home with a staff member and falsely told his wife that PLAINTIFF was seeing someone to cause him distress.”
Alvarado-Gil’s lawyer Ognian Gavrilov denied the allegations, calling Condit “a disgruntled former employee” and accusing him of having “fabricated an outlandish story” without evidence “to get a payday.”
Gavrilov added, “We expect that the senator will be fully cleared of any wrongdoing of these bogus, financially motivated claims.”
Alvarado-Gil made headlines in August after she left the Democratic Party to become a Republican.
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