ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A former judge on New York state’s top court will review findings that an assemblyman violated that house’s sexual harassment policy.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Wednesday that former Court of Appeals Judge Howard Levine will conduct a hearing to examine the findings of the Assembly Ethics Committee regarding Assemblyman Micah Kellner of Manhattan.
The committee found last month that Kellner violated the Assembly’s sexual harassment policy by making inappropriate comments to staff members in 2009 and 2011.
Kellner denies the accusations and requested the hearing.
Kellner was removed from his post as chairman of the committee on libraries and cannot have interns working in his office.
The Assembly has been roiled by a series of sexual harassment scandals.
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