Complaints allege Gutierrez harassment, drunkenness
Equal Employment Opportunity officer took notes on state worker's allegations.
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COLUMBUS — After his sexual advances were rebuked by a junior employee, Anthony Gutierrez showed up to work the next day with booze on his breath and vomit caked on his nose. He was so drunk the night before, he told co-workers, he fell asleep behind the wheel of a state-owned SUV, hit a guardrail and woke up.
That's according to 12 pages of notes released Tuesday, April 15, by Attorney General Marc Dann's office. The handwritten notes, taken by Equal Employment Opportunity officer Angela Smedlund, detail allegations of repeated sexual harassment, drunkenness, vulgarity and tension involving the man Dann hired to supervise his maintenance, purchasing and mailroom operations.
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Gutierrez was suspended with pay from his $87,500 job, a month after two employees made the allegations of harassment. Cindy Stankoski, 26, told Smedlund that she and Gutierrez, 50, had drinks after work on Sept. 10, then went to the apartment Dann shared with Gutierrez and Leo Jennings III, Dann's communications director. While there, she said she went to lay down because she felt tipsy. When she awoke, she said, her pants were undone and Gutierrez was next to her in his underwear.
About a month later, while outside a Columbus area restaurant, Gutierrez told her in crude terms that he wanted sex and "you owe me," the notes said. Stankoski told him off and left.
The notes provide times, places and witnesses to harassment Stankoski says she endured. "Hard for her to come to work — doesn't feel safe — very uncomfortable," the notes said.
