The New York Post by Jamie Schram - April 6, 2011
He has been called "a cross between a bulldog and a Chihuahua."
But now, prominent New York attorney Salvatore Strazzullo can just be called a dirty old dog, according to a bombshell sexual harassment suit. In papers filed today in Brooklyn Supreme Court, Strazzullo is accused by former paralegal Desiree DeMartino of keeping her in a conference room while her one-year-old son was just outside the door, exposing himself and masturbating to completion. The suit also charges that Strazzullo “forcibly kissed” the married DeMartino, placed his hands down her shirt and groped her breasts. As if that wasn’t enough, Strazzullo allegedly cut her salary and hours when she complained, and then denied her vacations and holidays. Finally, he terminated her employment, the suit says. Strazzullo had no comment. Strazzullo, who runs offices in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island and Italy, is best known for representing celebrity and other high profile clients as well as his fiery personality in defending them on national TV. Some of his clients include Foxy Brown, Silvia Mena who sued Washington Redskins Defensive Tackle Albert Haynesworth and Milana Dravnel who filed a $25 million defamation suit against boxer Oscar De La Hoya. Strazzullo has regularly appeared in gossip columns as well as New York society magazines such as Avenue. Post columnist Andrea Peyser once referred to him as "a cross between a bulldog and a Chihuahua.”
In her lawsuit, DeMartino alleges that she worked for Strazzullo from December 2004 to February 2011. During the summer of 2009, Strazzullo allegedly held DeMartino against her will for ten minutes in the conference room at his Staten Island office. While blocking the doorway with his body, “Strazzullo unzipped his trousers, exposed his penis and masturbated to completion,” the suit charges. DeMartino was screaming at Strazzullo to “stop masturbating, to put [his] penis away,” and to let [her] out” of the conference room,” the papers say. In Oct. 2010, Strazzullo allegedly struck again – this time in his Brooklyn office. He allegedly summoned DeMartino into his private office, locked the door and approached her as if he were going to take documents she had been carrying. Instead, the suit says, Strazzullo lunged at DeMartino, “kissed her on the mouth, placed his hand down her blouse and grabbed her breasts.” DeMartino allegedly yelled at him to stop and threatened to report his harassing behavior. From then on, the situation spiraled downward for DeMartino, who was terminated by Strazzullo in February, according to the suit. “There is little to add independent of the allegations stated in the complaint, which simply illustrate downright despicable and intolerable behavior,” said DeMartino’s attorneys, Michael Borrelli and Alexander Coleman.
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Whatever happened to Alan Isaac? Is he still around?
ReplyDeleteto the above writer @6:35 AM...Isaac's law license was suspended for a mere six months....Isaac GOT AWAY WITH IT ALL... FELONY LEVEL CRIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteafter reading this article...I'm saying to myself..WTF...This man committed FELONY LEVEL CRIMES...Did she report this to the Manhattan DA's office?..tell her to see Ms. Fixit (ADA LISA FRIEL)..she'll make it all go away..just like she did with Allen ISaac's crimes!!
ReplyDeleteI got out my crying towel and I cried for another good attorney falling for the provocative exposing of any female skin by those she-devils. Sharia law has it right, the rapist must be admonished and the rapee condemned and stoned for her misuse of her body. Thank god, we have understanding lawyers on the NY disciplinary committees and good lawyers as DA's who know how to sympathize with a lawyer tempted by those temptresses.
ReplyDeletePlease spare this good lawyer to continue his efforts for the downtrodden.
There is nothing in state law that prevents satisfying sexual needs and financial needs at the same time... even if you're a judge or state attorney. If you don't believe me, find the law and post it !!
ReplyDeleteCut his jewels off that will cure this bums problem
ReplyDeleteRecruiting new children into the Global Child Sex Trafficking/Pornography Industry, worth trillions of dollars worldwide, works this way in the United States (especially in the corrupt New York City Family Courts):
ReplyDeleteA Prostitute, usually coming from this same industry, entraps and has a child with a wealthy but naive father who she then divorces and makes him pay a fortune in mandatory Child Support, about 21% of his income a year for 21 years.
All the while, she provokes and instigates him repeatedly until he reacts and she can then obtain Orders of Protection against him, so he can never even see his own kids, but still pays a fortune in support.
Usually some type of Domestic Violence Women's group will represent that con-artist woman/prostitute for free, said group routinely staffed with Pedophiles and Sexual Deviants who also support and actively partake in the Global Child Sex Trafficking Industry. Some of these "agencies" even are so bold as to have a "wing" of their organization devoted to "stopping or preventing child sex trafficking." (The Lady Doth Protest Too Much - William Shakespeare) to further obfuscate and cover their tracks and true intentions.
This is all the while the poor SOB Father has to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for lawyers who always lose, owing to the above, and the following:
The Family Court Judges in New York City and the Law Guardian chosen in these child custody cases (and the Court Appointed Forensic Psychologists) are also Perverts, Pedophiles, and they support and participate in the Global Child Sex Trafficking/Pornography Industry, and may even be willing and active participants.
The Family Court Judge and Law Guardian are literally hand picked by the "Domestic Violence Women's Lobbying Group" to ensure that those kids never ever see their Fathers (who can protect them) again, by repeatedly and consistently disallowing those Fathers to see their children, with less and less time, until finally the Father's Parental Rights are terminated for good, leaving those poor defenseless children in the sole custody of that vile, drug addicted, alcoholic, violent, deranged, descendent of the child porn industry prostitute mother, who now, free to do so without any prevention by the estranged and removed Biological Father - SURPRISE! sells those kids off to the highest bidder in the Global Child Sex Trafficking/Pornography Industry, again, worth trillions of dollars a year.
And then the cycle repeats itself a generation later with those "sold off children" doing it to their own kids, their souls having been lost forever.
Meanwhile the FBI, ICE, DHS, and other Federal and State Law Enforcement Agencies do absolutely nothing (many of them may be pedophiles, partaking of this child sex industry as well).
These "law enforcement agencies" will tell you "it's not in their Mandate" or "there's nothing we can do," and will tell you to refer it to the Administration for Childrens Services ("ACS") which is equally if not more corrupt, also staffed with incompetents and corrupt caseworkers, and at the higher levels perverts and pedophiles, and also just as beholden and owned by the Global Child Sex Trafficking/Pornography Industry as the specially selected Family Court Judges and Law Guardians.
All ACS ever does is sweep legitimate allegations and complaints about the above under the rug, while attacking and vilifying the Complainant.
In other words, there is a Grand Conspiracy of Global Child Sex Trafficking, completely fool proof and airtight, and no one can (or will) do a goddamned thing about it.
If you try and complain about it, or try and launch an investigation into it, both you and your world will be crushed by the awesome money, power, political connections, lobbying groups, and "professionals" in charge of maintaining and preserving this "industry."
Count on it.