“The revelations in the texts and emails will shock those who, for too long, have accepted the City’s outrageous mischaracterizations of our client’s claims, and these messages are just the tip of the iceberg,” said lead attorney Ernest Martin, Jr.  “Melanie McDade managed to excel in her position working on behalf of the city, despite enduring years of sexual harassment, degradation, and retaliation by the mayor. These texts and emails demonstrate irrefutably how the mayor took full advantage of his position in his campaign of abuse and threats toward a vulnerable woman who he knew to be a single mother who was the sole supporter of four children and a caregiver to aging parents.”

Read the full article by the L.A. Focus here.