Female IRS Agent Sued IRS CID Chief Paul "Big Harley Mama" Varville for Sexual Harrassment
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
Paula J. CIAFREI (Platinffs)
v.
Lloyd BENTSEN, Secretary of the Department of Treasury (Defandent)
December 7, 1994
Plaintiff, Paula J. Ciafrei ("Ciafrei"), was employed by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"), Providence District, Criminal Investigation Division ("CID"), as a secretary at pay grade GS-5. The IRS is an agency within the Department of the Treasury. Plaintiff alleges that her superiors, Michael Dreiblatt ("Dreiblatt"), Chief of the Hartford CID, and Paul Varville ("Varville"), Branch Chief of the Hartford CID, had the supervisory power and control to award all promotions and pay raises within her office.
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In March, 1992, plaintiff was informed by a co-worker that Dreiblatt and Varville had made disparaging remarks about plaintiff. Specifically, both men had referred to plaintiff as a "Big Harley Mama with tattoos all over her body." (Pl.'s Mem. in Supp. of Opp. to Mot. to Dismiss/Summ. J. ("Pl.'s Mem."), Ex. 11- 13.)
Dreiblatt also made comments to others stressing the importance of a job applicant's physical beauty and that the image he wanted in his office was of "young pretty girls." (Pl.'s Mem., Ex. 3 and 13.) These comments were never made in plaintiff's presence.
In separate letters to plaintiff, dated August 19, 1992, both Dreiblatt and Varville "apologized for any remarks that [they] made which may have caused [plaintiff] embarrassment, ridicule, or demonstrated any intended or implied practice of harassment or discrimination on [their] part." (Pl.'s Mem., Ex. 14.)
Paula J. CIAFREI (Platinffs)
v.
Lloyd BENTSEN, Secretary of the Department of Treasury (Defandent)
December 7, 1994
Plaintiff, Paula J. Ciafrei ("Ciafrei"), was employed by the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"), Providence District, Criminal Investigation Division ("CID"), as a secretary at pay grade GS-5. The IRS is an agency within the Department of the Treasury. Plaintiff alleges that her superiors, Michael Dreiblatt ("Dreiblatt"), Chief of the Hartford CID, and Paul Varville ("Varville"), Branch Chief of the Hartford CID, had the supervisory power and control to award all promotions and pay raises within her office.
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In March, 1992, plaintiff was informed by a co-worker that Dreiblatt and Varville had made disparaging remarks about plaintiff. Specifically, both men had referred to plaintiff as a "Big Harley Mama with tattoos all over her body." (Pl.'s Mem. in Supp. of Opp. to Mot. to Dismiss/Summ. J. ("Pl.'s Mem."), Ex. 11- 13.)
Dreiblatt also made comments to others stressing the importance of a job applicant's physical beauty and that the image he wanted in his office was of "young pretty girls." (Pl.'s Mem., Ex. 3 and 13.) These comments were never made in plaintiff's presence.
In separate letters to plaintiff, dated August 19, 1992, both Dreiblatt and Varville "apologized for any remarks that [they] made which may have caused [plaintiff] embarrassment, ridicule, or demonstrated any intended or implied practice of harassment or discrimination on [their] part." (Pl.'s Mem., Ex. 14.)
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