“Everyone was surprised — and yet no one was surprised,” Sabrina Hersi Issa told me this week as we talked about the collapse of FitzGibbon Media, the Washington PR firm which, until it abruptly shut its doors on Dec. 17, had counted some of the biggest names in progressive politics among its clients.
The cause for the quick closure: allegations of sexual harassment and assault by the firm’s eponymous president, Trevor FitzGibbon. After FitzGibbon’s staffers reported more than a half-dozen incidents of sexual harassment and at least two dozen incidents of sexual assault to the firm’s human resources, according to The Huffington Post, the firm quickly shut down, with little notice to the staff that had been its backbone. The staff’s paychecks will be cut off at the end of the year, and they will receive no bonuses or severance package. Read more…
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