Sales Rep Sues TV Station Over Drug, Sex Claims

An employee at a Cleveland TV station is suing amid claims that drug taking, sexual encounters and 'rampant' drinking were rife at the company, according to the Daily Mail.

Kevin Flanigan, a sales rep at 19 Action News, wants $35,000 in damages from 19 Action News.

Station executives allegedly bought cocaine at work and had sex with clients in what has been described as a ‘Gomorrah-like’ office environment, according to Mr Flanigan's lawsuit.

Advertising staff at the station are said to have done whatever it took to ‘foster new business relationships’ - including giving clients oral sex.

Flanigan is suing for sexual harassment and retaliation and wants $35,000 in damages.

Debra Pando

The legal documents state that Flanigan was hired by WOIO in 2010 and that executive Debra Pando preferred the company of women so began to discriminate against him.

He says there was pressure to ‘engage in inappropriate sexual practices including sexual contact with other employees and clients and rampant use of illegal drugs at corporate events, many times involving clients’.

Miss Pando and other employees ‘provided sexual favors’ to get new business or cement already existing relationships, Mr Flanigan claims.

The lawsuit alleges that in one instance at a party ‘after smoking marijuana with a client, Miss Pando performed oral sex on a client in order to convince the client to remain the sponsor of the event’.

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