The state Assembly agreed to pay $110,000 to settle an overtime and sexual harassment lawsuit against a former state legislator.
In February 2014, a former legislative staffer, Kristina Zahn, sued the now-ousted Assemblyman Steve Fox (D-Palmdale), alleging that the one-term legislator forced her to do unpaid campaign work, refused to pay her overtime and made inappropriate sexual comments.
Zahn worked as a paralegal for Fox’s law firm, and after Fox’s election to the state Assembly in 2012, became a secretary and field scheduler in his Palmdale district office. Zahn said she was wrongfully terminated in July 2013 after she was absent from work for three days because of a badly dislocated shoulder.