Taylor Berman · 12/09/13 12:37PM
Six weeks after he pleaded guilty to charges of false imprisonment and battery, former San Diego mayor Bob Filner was sentenced today to three years of probation and 90 days of home confinement.
Six weeks after he pleaded guilty to charges of false imprisonment and battery, former San Diego mayor Bob Filner was sentenced today to three years of probation and 90 days of home confinement.
Former San Diego mayor Bob Filner pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to three criminal charges related to the sexual harassment allegations that led to his resignation two months ago. Filner admitted committing one felony count of false imprisonment “by violence, fraud, menace, and deceit” and two counts of misdemeanor battery.
This just in: Man says something stupid about women.
NBC San Diego is reporting that Mayor Bob Filner, (alleged) serial sexual harasser, will resign tomorrow.
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who has been accused of sexual harassment by 18 women, including a great-grandmother and a disabled Iraq war veteran's nurse, reached a settlement with city leaders on Wednesday. The deal will remain confidential until Friday, when it will be presented to the San Diego City Council.
A 67-year-old great-grandmother is the latest person to accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment. During a press conference Thursday afternoon, Peggy Shannon, who works part time at San Diego's City Hall, said Filner once asked her “if she could go for eight hours straight.”
Things are getting downright silly in the fight to depose San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who currently stands accused of sexual harassment by more than a dozen women. In order to try and sate his critics, Filner promised to do a two-week stint of "intensive therapy," which he completed on Friday. When Filner got back to his office, however, he discovered that his chief of staff had changed the locks.
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner has flown the coop from two weeks of therapy designed to help him combat his urge to sexually harass women all the time. Filner was initially scheduled to be in therapy until August 19, but his chief of staff told reporters that the mayor started the program early and is now done.
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner began two weeks of intensive therapy yesterday in an effort to cure himself of a now infamous tendency to sexually harass practically any woman within grabbing distance. At last count, nine women (at least) had accused Filner of behaving inappropriately with them over the years. Today comes news of yet another harassment charge being leveled against the former 10-term Democratic congressman, and, well, it's a doozy.
A Marilyn Monroe impersonator has become the ninth (or possibly tenth) woman to publicly accuse San Diego mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment. The embattled mayor has resisted calls for his retirement, and is instead beginning an "intensive" two-week therapy session.
In a letter sent to the San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, Bob Filner's attorney Harvey Berger said the city was liable for the mayor's sexual misconduct because he was never provided with state-required sexual harassment training.
The San Diego City Council will file a lawsuit against San Diego Mayor Bob Filner to recover any money the city has to pay as a result of the sexual harassment lawsuit filed by one of the mayor's former top aides. Filner announced last Friday that he's taking two weeks off to enter an "intensive therapy" program.
Following sexual harassment accusations from seven different women, Bob Filner, San Diego mayor and a horrible apparition from the "Black Hole Sun Video," said in a press conference today that he will take two weeks off to enter an "intensive therapy" program to try and become a better man and mayor.
Papers are going to run out of inches for all the politicians with sex scandals crowding the news cycle this week, especially now that a second woman has come forward to accuse San Diego Mayor Bob Filner of sexual harassment.
Less than a week after people began calling for San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's resignation amid vague allegations of sexual harassment, more detailed charges have come to light: "In a City Hall elevator, Filner told a female staffer that women employees would do better 'if they worked without their panties on.'"
San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, responding to calls for his resignation from former political allies, released a video this afternoon in which in which he apologizes for "[failing] to fully respect the women who work for me and with me" and says he has in the past "intimidated" women. It's the latest shame in what's been a rather difficult week for the city's first Democratic mayor in decades.
Last November, Rep. Bob Filner (D - Cali.) was re-elected to Congress. The supporters of Tea Party-backed Republican Nick Popaditch sure were gracious in defeat, though! Except for when they screamed "Jew" at Filner and spat at him.
"It is time to chill out, Republicans." -Representative Bob Filner, Democrat of California, being awesome.