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Lawsuit: Military Contractor Asked Employee To Go Panty-Less

92310brooks.jpg It turns out that David Brooks, the DHB military contractor who was just convicted of ripping off $190 million from his company for personal expenses, likes his insider trading and securities fraud with a side dish of sexual harassment. Brooks was hit with a horndog lawsuit from a former female employee who says that, among other things, he would ask her to "collect his semen." Charm must go hand-in-hand with defective bullet proof vests!

Jessica Poolt alleges in her suit that Brooks hounded her during the two weeks she was employed for his Bulletproof Enterprises horse stable in 2009. He would cajole her into after-hours meetings at his apartment where he "had large pictures of various naked women," and where he'd probe her about her sex life. "You should wear short skirts with no underwear to work, not because I tell you to, but because I want you to," he allegedly told her. One time, he made a crude comment about her involving a highlighter, then complained about how much his vet was charging for semen collection from one of his horses: "I bet you would collect my semen for much less money. How much would you do it for?"

Brooks was the CEO of DHB Industries, a maker of bullet proof body armor worn by the U.S. military and the NYPD. He spent his ill-gotten gains wantonly, on everything from pornographic videos for his son to plastic surgery for his wife, from a burial plot for his mother to prostitutes for his employees, and, for himself, a six-figured American-flag belt buckle encrusted with rubies, sapphires and diamonds. A lawyer for Brooks, who Vanity Fair called "a villain perfectly suited for the modern media era’s court of public opinion" and faces up to 25 years in prison at sentencing next month, says the lawsuit is "frivolous" and claims Poolt only worked for Brooks for two weeks.

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  • John L

    Two weeks of sexual harassment?

    And how many millions does she feel that she should get for two weeks of nasty comments?

    Women like her trivialize real victims of sexual harassment.

    Not say that what this guy did wasn't wrong but suing after just two weeks?

    On second thought I guess she's right.

    He was wrong and she shouldn't have had to deal with it for even one day, much less two weeks.

    Take that belt buckle from him!

    See being me is hard, I end up arguing and correcting myself all the time.

  • cronegirl

    The smart one usually wins

  • Cannibal

    Gross, but seems like typical behavior for someone in his position

  • JacqueMehoff

    What a scum bucket.

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