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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.

Dennis Gallagher, the married City Councilman representing Queens who was accused of raping a constituent in a drunken encounter last year, announced his planned resignation after pleading guilty to sexual abuse and forcible touching. Last summer, a 52-year-old woman alleged that she met Gallagher at a bar in Queens and after a night of drinking went with the Councilman to his district office, where he raped her.