Boss has a ‘bad habit’
Sued by others yet ‘still harassed me’
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.