New York Post

Boss has a ‘bad habit’

Sued by others yet ‘still harassed me’

- By PRISCILLA DEGREGORY

This New Jersey boss can’t stop sexually harassing his employees, a new lawsuit alleges.

Dru DiSilvestr­o, the manager at an electricia­n contractor in the small town of Elmer, NJ, allegedly harassed a female underling — while litigating separate claims that he flashed his penis and left a dildo on the desk of another female employee.

Kimberly North, 23, claims the boss was preying on her while he was fighting a separate suit from worker Meaghan Martin.

North alleges he groped her, texted her pornograph­y and made lewd comments, according to her Camden County, NJ, lawsuit, which was filed on Friday.

“Do you swallow?” he asked her, the court papers allege.

In March, Martin filed a suit against DiSilvestr­o and the company, Eric M. Krise Electrical Contractor LLC.

She alleged DiSilvestr­o was behind enough crude talk in the office that employees started an “inappropri­ate-comments jar” targeting him. Two more women joined the suit, which was eventually settled.

As DiSilvestr­o was litigating that case, he allegedly harassed North — who started with the company in 2015 when she was 18 years old, according to her suit.

North (pictured) says DiSilvestr­o for years made comments about her “hot body,” grabbed his crotch while making lewd faces at her and asked her about her sexual preference­s, the suit claims.

“Just like the three women in the Martin Litigation, Defendant DiSilvestr­o sexually harassed [North] on a daily basis for years,” the lawsuit alleges.

“Even worse, he continued to sexually harass her in the middle of the Martin Litigation, while the company conducted an internal investigat­ion into his behavior, and even after the Martin Litigation resolved.”

When North split from her boyfriend, DiSilvestr­o allegedly sent her a text on Aug. 21, 2018, of a porno video and a GIF of a woman performing oral sex on a man, according to the filing, which includes screenshot­s of the alleged text messages.

While DiSilvestr­o was on leave amid the company’s probe into Martin’s allegation­s, he texted North to ask about her upcoming plans. “I’m not aloud [sic] to ask anymore what people have planned... But you can tell me if you wanted to,” he wrote, the filing charges.

North continuall­y shut DiSilvestr­o down, and she says he eventually grew “abrasive towards” her for it.

The company failed to implement policies to stop the harassment, North claims.

She eventually went on a month of medical leave in August because of her anxiety from working with DiSilvestr­o, and quit Sept. 5.

“I was upset and stressed out and, after I saw the other case, I thought maybe it would stop and I could keep my job and he would stop,” North told The Post.

“But it didn’t and then I couldn’t take it anymore,” she said. “That’s why I left.”

North’s lawyer, Matthew Luber, said the company “was fully aware of Mr. DiSilvestr­o’s egregious sexual harassment and did virtually nothing to stop it.”

Jonathan Landesman, a lawyer for the company, and DiSilvestr­o did not comment.

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