Fire Law Blog Fire Service and Public Safety Legal Issues Blog by Curt Varone
The Fire Chief of the Jeannette Fire Department in western Pennsylvania has been suspended with pay pending an investigation into allegations that he sexually assaulted a women who had come to apply for a job with the department.
Fire Chief Randy Dubich has not been charged, but stands accused of sexually assaulting a woman in his office at city hall on September 15, 2010. More on the story here.
Obviously it is impossible for us to know what really happened, but the mere allegation of such misconduct is so devastating. If he did it, what was he thinking… and if he did not, how will he possibly be able to regain his good name and reputation? I have had clients in similar situations – some guilty, some not – but either way there is an inevitable cloud follows them where ever they go.
Pretty clearly a lose-lose proposition. More on the story.
