Hawaiian Tropic Fights Back Against Rape Allegations

Dennis Riese, CEO of the Riese organization that owns the Hawaiian Tropic Zone, is coming out against allegations of sexual assault and rape involving a Tropic manager filed in a lawsuit against the chain this week. Riese claims that Giulietta Consalvo, the woman who accuses manager Anthony Rakis of raping her in a cab, told him in 2006 that she was in fact not raped and even recommended a friend of hers to be Rakis's personal assistant after the alleged attack. Riese claims that the women who filed suit are simply trying to shake the company down and had asked for $100 million a year ago if they would remain silent on the matter. Another former employee Tiffany Studstill tells the Post that she thinks the women who filed the suit "are doing it for money" and that while she worked at the restaurant, she "never saw anyone in management do anything inappropriate." She also denies the suit's claim that she and Rakis had a relationship.

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By Billy Parker in News on October 11, 2008 12:48 PM

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HUGO_MEGO

Thank you Bill Clinton.

gregorsamsa77

Women that use their bodies to get ahead in life end up sexually harassed. News at 11.

P.S.: A little bit of modesty goes a long way.

longacre

When there is a story about someone who is either suspected of committing a crime or the victim of a crime, it is extremely bad taste, potentially even libelous, to use a stock photo of another person.

Pull My Finger

Does she take it in the third input?

pete

heh, exactly what I knew it was about

jaycjay

Why? It's a picture of an employee from the place in question, wearing the required uniform.

I do think, though, that there should be a mention (as with the last story) that it's not one of the people filing or named in the suit.

jaycjay

Why? It's a picture of an employee from the place in question, wearing the required uniform.

I do think, though, that there should be a mention (as with the last story) that it's not one of the people filing or named in the suit.