Orange County Supervisors told their lawyers to move ahead with settling lawsuits from eight different women who worked at the county prosecutor’s office who claimed they were sexually harassed and that District Attorney Todd Spitzer punished them for bringing up their complaints.
The decision ends two years of legal battles that spilled into public during Spitzer’s 2022 reelection campaign, when he was sued by Tracy Miller, one of his top prosecutors who alleged she faced retaliation from Spitzer for helping people report sexual harassment.
All eight of the harassment claims focused on Gary LoGalbo, one of Spitzer’s appointees and the best man at his wedding, which a county HR investigation found regularly sexually harassed women at the office, earning him the nickname “Scary Gary.”…