AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Former Democratic mayor ordered to pay $13 million after jury finds him liable for sexually assaulting seven women
A Sonoma County jury found former Windsor, California, mayor Dominic Foppoli liable for sexually assaulting seven women over nearly two decades, and reality TV star Farrah Abraham, who has her own civil case pending against him, says the verdict is only the beginning. The unanimous verdict landed after a seven-week civil trial. Jurors ordered the […] The post Former Democratic mayor ordered to pay $13 million after jury finds him liable for sexually assaulting seven women appeared first on American Almanac .
A Sonoma County jury found former Windsor, California, mayor Dominic Foppoli liable for sexually assaulting seven women over nearly two decades, and reality TV star Farrah Abraham, who has her own civil case pending against him, says the verdict is only the beginning. The unanimous verdict landed after a seven-week civil trial. Jurors ordered the 44-year-old Democrat to pay roughly $13 million in compensatory damages to the seven plaintiffs, with individual awards ranging from $6,000 to more than $4.6 million. Punitive damages have not yet been determined. The jury also found "clear and convincing" evidence that Foppoli acted with "oppression, fraud, and malice", a legal threshold that opens the door to additional financial penalties in a…Open