A Lengthy Island man claims he was compelled to mattress his feminine boss for years on the Queens drug rehab the place they labored — and she or he even tried to justify the morning intercourse romps by invoking former President Obama.
“Barack met Michelle at work. She was his boss. Be presidential … I believe the following textual content [from you]
needs to be saying Thanks,” Saint Joseph’s Medical Heart program director Michele Poole allegedly informed underling Kian Cooper, in response to his $100 million intercourse discrimination lawsuit. “I’m sooo undervalued. even a Mercedes wants a tune up generally.”
Everybody on the job knew what was occurring behind the closed doorways of Poole’s workplace, due to “the loud noises relative to sexual actions,” he alleged within the Brooklyn Supreme Court docket criticism filed in opposition to her and the corporate.
And each time he tried to place a cease to the twisted rendezvous, she threatened to fireplace him.
“I requested her to cease, head to head, quite a few occasions, greater than 100 occasions and in textual content messages about 12 to 14 occasions,” he contended.
“Discover one other job,” Poole allegedly informed Cooper.
Poole adamantly denied the allegations to The Submit — insisting their six-month affair was mutual; that Cooper showered her with items and romantic playing cards, and that she had no authority to rent or fireplace him.
“He’s simply making stuff up,” she insisted. “I’ve proof of the intimate issues he despatched me.”
“I’ve credible proof and I can be submitting a lawsuit in opposition to anybody who slanders me,” she added.
Cooper additionally claimed Poole had an affair with a second worker — however the man denied the allegation to The Submit.
The alleged sexual encounters passed off two to a few occasions per week in her fourth-floor workplace, usually close to the beginning of his 6 a.m. shift, when Poole would summon him, Cooper alleged in court docket papers.
“After some time I might do issues to keep away from her,” he alleged, including, “Strolling from the third to the fourth ground, I might suppose, ‘Rattling it, how am I going to get out of this workplace with out feeling gross?’
“I principally was simply making an attempt to take the abuse and save my job,” stated Cooper, 50, who remains to be employed as a scientific supervisor with Saint Joseph’s.
Poole is now not employed at Saint Joseph’s, although it’s unclear if she was terminated or allowed to depart on her personal, Cooper’s attorneys stated.
Determined to maintain the job because of a previous drug conviction, Cooper — who has since earned two Grasp’s levels in social work and concrete affairs — allegedly in his lawsuit that Poole was already having an affair with one other worker at Saint Joseph’s opioid remedy heart when he started in 2019.
In 2022, the flirty Poole allegedly despatched him an nameless fruit basket earlier than demanding a sexual relationship — which kicked off with a date on the Marriott Marquis in Midtown, he claimed.
Cooper, who stated he’s since been recognized with put up traumatic stress dysfunction, took two medical leaves, together with one month-long absence and one other two months, because of stress and nervousness, he stated within the lawsuit.
After he lastly complained in February 2024, Poole allegedly informed Cooper, “The sh-t you pulled was extraordinarily foul. You hung me out to dry.”
Males are simply as a lot victims of sexual harassment as ladies, stated Cooper’s attorneys, JoAnn Squillace and Stephen Drummond.
Poole despatched fruit baskets to all the workers for his or her birthdays, she informed The Submit, and denied any intercourse passed off within the workplace.
“We had a full employees by 6 a.m.,” she stated, noting her secretary was current throughout their conferences. “I’ve by no means carried out something to hurt him.”
Saint Joseph’s didn’t return a request for remark.
