The defendants in a suit over alleged sexual harassment and employer retaliation at New York County Defender Services painted a radically different picture of the plaintiff in the suit, staff attorney Alexandra Bonacarti, in a response to her amended complaint filed in New York County Supreme Court in October.
While Bonacarti’s complaint alleged malignant indifference from management towards aggressive and persistent harassment by a love-spurned colleague, the defendants—NYCD’s executive director Stan Germán, supervising attorney Christopher Boyle and the organization itself—countered in their response filed last week that it was Bonacarti’s problematic behavior that led to many of the issues in dispute.
