Finally, Karen Hartley Nagle might be useful. From the News Journal:
Karen Hartley-Nagle, 49, alleges Stewart, her senior adviser, Elliott Jacobson, and Kelly Services wrongfully terminated her for missing seven days of work to prepare for and attend court hearings in March, according to a suit filed Monday in Kent County Superior Court.
Hartley-Nagle also accuses Jacobson, Stewart’s former chief of staff and currently a senior adviser to the commissioner, of sexual advances. Stewart was on vacation Monday and had not seen the suit. She commented on some parts of it but not others. Jacobson would not comment on the contents of the lawsuit. […]
After Hartley-Nagle’s firing, Jacobson attempted to purchase the two-story Dover home that Hartley-Nagle rented and allow her to stay in the home temporarily at no financial cost, according to court documents. The arrangement would have come with conditions, Hartley-Nagle said in her complaint. “In exchange for becoming her landlord, Jacobson wanted Plaintiff to submit to having an intimate relationship with him,” the complaint said.
The complaint goes on to quote from an April 23, 2011, email that it says Jacobson sent to Hartley-Nagle.
“I wanted to start the long journey to adonishood, becoming half the man I am today so that you would find me as irresistible as I find you,” Jacobson wrote, according to the complaint. “And finally, I wanted us to get past the façade of small talk and trivia and make the trip down the long and winding road into each other’s undiscovered countries we call our heart and soul.”
I will wait after you stop laughing. Adonishood? Oh. My. God. I am not sure what to make of the unwanted “sexual advances” allegation. I hope Karen is not making that up, because I do not want to see an otherwise credible lawsuit be tarnished by what could be salacious nonsense. And I say that because I cannot picture Elliot Jacobson making sexual advances of any type, whether wanted or not. Then again, Jacobson has acknowledged that the email came from him. So if this part of the lawsuit is true, and Jacobson has a long history of improper advances and sexual harassment, wow. What an asshole. He must be fired immediately.
But here is the part of the lawsuit to resonates with me.
Since taking office in 2009, the lawsuit alleges, Stewart used Kelly Services to get around a state hiring freeze and the number of people the Legislature authorizes her to employ “to get insiders and friends hired and placed” at the Department of Insurance
Stewart defends the practice of hiring from a temp agency, but did not address allegations that she packed the department with cronies. She also says she did not fire Hartley Nagle, as KHN did not report to her, she reported to Kelly Services.