Post by Logan on Jan 16, 2016 23:54:21 GMT -6
A maintenance director for the state remains on the job and free after answering yesterday to charges of sexual assault on two fellow employees, one of whom says he put her in “fear” in their Beacon Hill office after his “aggressive” attack.
Edward Nicosia, 48, a $90,000-a-year regional director at the Division of Capital Asset Management, pleaded not guilty to four counts of indecent assault and battery in Boston Municipal Court, where he was ordered to stay away from the state office — aside from a biweekly meeting — and have no contact with the alleged victims.
According to a series of affidavits filed as part of an active harassment prevention order and details released by prosecutors, Nicosia is accused of forcibly kissing and groping two female employees in the division’s One Ashburton Place offices, and both women said they later spoke with state officials as part of an internal investigation.
But despite the probe — which one employee wrote continued for eight months — and now a criminal case, Nicosia remains employed at the agency, which handles facilities management, construction and real estate services for the state.
Continue reading at www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/01/state_worker_charged_with_indecent_assault .
Edward Nicosia, 48, a $90,000-a-year regional director at the Division of Capital Asset Management, pleaded not guilty to four counts of indecent assault and battery in Boston Municipal Court, where he was ordered to stay away from the state office — aside from a biweekly meeting — and have no contact with the alleged victims.
According to a series of affidavits filed as part of an active harassment prevention order and details released by prosecutors, Nicosia is accused of forcibly kissing and groping two female employees in the division’s One Ashburton Place offices, and both women said they later spoke with state officials as part of an internal investigation.
But despite the probe — which one employee wrote continued for eight months — and now a criminal case, Nicosia remains employed at the agency, which handles facilities management, construction and real estate services for the state.
Continue reading at www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/01/state_worker_charged_with_indecent_assault .