City’s costly sex harass

THE TAXPAYERS of New York have coughed up nearly $5 million to settle sex harassment claims filed by city employees against their coworkers over the last five years, City Hall revealed Friday. The agency with the most complaints, the city data showed, was the Department of Education, which racks up about 120 complaints a year.

In all, from mid-2013 through last year there were 1,312 complaints of bad behavior by the city’s hardworking civil servants. Of those, about one in six — 221 — were substantiated.

These cases resulted in punishment for city workers that ranged from demotion to suspension to termination. City Hall would not say how many workers had been fired.

But 32 of these cases resulted in settlements that cost the taxpayers a total of $4.7 million.

And it appears there could be more check writing coming up: 295 cases appear to be still pending.

Right, former President George H.W. Bush and daughter Dorothy (Doro) Bush Koch talk to people paying respects at a public viewing of the casket of Barbara Bush (main photo) at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston on Friday. Barbara Bush died...