Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, a lot of his erstwhile City Hall lieutenants and a federal decide might all take the stand within the trial subsequent yr for the lawsuit between Felix G. Arroyo and the girl who says he sexually harassed her.
Hilani Morales, Arroyo’s former worker within the metropolis’s then-titled Department of Health and Human Services, has listed Walsh, who’s now the U.S. Labor Secretary, and Daniel Koh — Walsh’s former chief of workers in Boston City Hall after which in Labor who’s now a deputy cupboard secretary within the White House — on the record of potential witnesses to name in subsequent yr’s probably jury trial.
Morales additionally listed federal Senior Judge Mark Wolf, a well known decide on the John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse within the Seaport, as a witness.
Her lawyer, John Tocci, stated they don’t know in the event that they’re calling Walsh or Koh however undoubtedly plan on bringing Wolf to the witness stand to offer a contemporaneous account of Morales confiding about sexual harassment.
This record is a part of the joint pre-trial memorandum within the case filed final month, during which the totally different sides lay out what they intend to show to the jury and whom they might name to take action. The witness record is meant to be exhaustive — they would wish express permission from the decide so as to add to it later — however not everybody who’s on it is going to be known as within the jury trial slated for August 2023.
The case of Morales versus Arroyo and the town of Boston has been working its means by way of the courts since March 2018, during which Morales accuses Arroyo, then the town’s well being chief, of sexually harassing her and the town of retaliating towards her when she complained.
The metropolis and Arroyo individually declare they every did nothing mistaken; Arroyo says he by no means harassed Morales, who he says was only a unhealthy worker, and the town says it didn’t retaliate and that it took motion towards Arroyo when Morales complained to Human Resources.
Arroyo has filed a counterclaim that Morales defamed him. Arroyo additionally has sued Boston for wrongful termination in a separate, ongoing swimsuit.
Arroyo’s witness record additionally features a who’s who of the higher echelons of the Walsh administration in its early to center years. Former Walsh chief of workers Dave Sweeney is on there, as is Eugene O’Flaherty, Walsh’s shut pal and former company counsel, the administration’s prime lawyer. Joyce Linehan, Walsh’s longtime coverage chief, is on the record, as is former Boston Police Commissioner William Evans and Walsh’s former chief working officer Patrick Brophy.
Walsh’s previous communications chief, Laura Oggeri — whose title is spelled mistaken on the record — makes the lower, as does his earlier press secretary Sam Ormsby. Current metropolis intergovernmental affairs chief Claire Kelly is on there, as is HR boss Jennifer Wexler.
Walsh’s previous marketing campaign supervisor, Megan Costello, now a high-up within the college district, is there beneath witnesses to be known as by the town, as is Arroyo’s then-chief of workers Ilyitch Tabora, plus Morales and Arroyo themselves,
Each aspect within the court docket case reserves the fitting to name witnesses from one another’s lists.
Arroyo’s lawyer didn’t reply to a request for remark.
The trial is predicted to run a few weeks. Morales is searching for a minimum of $95,000 in again pay and medical bills plus extra money for different damages. Arroyo within the counterclaim is searching for an unspecified amount of money for emotional misery and harm to his repute.
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