The Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts said a stenographer was paid $52,000 in 2012 to settle a complaint about a Westmoreland County judge’s behavior. The public cost of sexual misconduct claims in Pennsylvania is sure to rise, as a deadline looms for the state Office of Administration to respond to a request by The Associated Press for information about the large swath of state government under the governor’s jurisdiction. The Treasury Department settled a federal lawsuit by an administrative officer who alleged that for several years she had been subject to “unwelcome touching” and “sexually explicit, unwelcome and vulgar overtures” by.....MORE

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