May 24, 2008
Lawyer Accused of Groping Female Employees
Yikes: The Manhattan DA's office charged a well-known lawyer with forcible touching, third-degree sex abuse and harassment after two female employees complained about his advances. The lawyer, 68-year-old Richard Dienst (father of WNBC reporter Jonathan Dienst), did not enter a plea during his arraignment yesterday.
The complaint is...very detailed. Apparently Dienst would accost female lawyers at firm, Queller, Fisher, Dienst, Serrins, Washor & Kool, which is located at the Woolworth Building. From the Daily News:
"I just want to see how great your t--s look," Dienst said when he grabbed one of the womens' breasts on March 21, the complaint charged. "I just want to feel how great your t--s feel."He apparently also said, "Look at what you did to an old man. You made an old man's weekend." The DA's office investigated after the lawyer complained and found another employee suffered similar harassment. According to the Post, the complaint said Dienst "grabbed and stroked [her] breast and lower back without permission or authority" and then "pulled [her] hand and upper body toward his clothed penis and attempted to place [her] hand and upper body on and around his penis."Dienst lifted up the woman's shirt and tried to "place his mouth on informant's breast, without permission or authority" and after she "asked the defendant to stop," the complaint said.
Unwilling to take no for an answer, Dienst "then placed his hand down the back of the informant's pants, placed informant's hand on his penis," according to the complaint.
Dienst faces six misdemeanor charges and could be in jail for a year if convicted. The NY Times says he'll be back in court in August, "possibly to negotiate a plea deal." And Dienst was fired ; a source tells the Post "he was a real problem child" at the firm. Fun fact: One of his clients was the cop who lost his job after his wife spiked his meatballs with pot so he'd fail a drug test.
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I'm going to guess he'll plead diminished capacity due to dementia, because 1) that's f'ing insane and 2) only a demented person would think that would work with a woman whom he wasn't paying.
Who knew there were gargoyles inside the Woolworth Building as well?
Well, what's a horny law partner supposed to do now that the Emperor's Club is out of business?
P.S. That was real smart of him to sexually harass his female colleagues (i.e. other lawyers). Like they wouldn't know how to fix his wagon.
Sadly this kind of thing happens all too often in varying degrees of blatancy or subtlety. But I have to say, it seems to occur more often in men in 50's or over. Lots of horny and out of control baby boomers out there.
This wouldn't have happened if his colleagues weren't so hot. Mr Dienst is the real victim here. Don't you think he's suffered enough??? Poor guy.
DENNY CRANE! Sorry, couldn't resist. I say, let Dick Wolf, Rene Balcer, Sam Waterston and the gang do a RFTH Law and Order on him. Serve him right.
I'd say, what a way to end his career, but it won't end it. These creeps always manage to land on thier feet somehow.
Where's Al Sharpton?