Move over, Vito “Gropez” — yet another Albany politician has been accused of outlandish sexual harassment by young female staffers.
Married-with-children Assemblyman Dennis Gabryszak, 62, tormented three workers with lewd antics such as sending a video of himself supposedly receiving oral sex, suggesting they shack up with him in hotels and talking about a tattoo on his penis, new court documents charge.
“I got a boner when I walked into the office today when I saw you,” the seven-year assemblyman allegedly drooled to his then-director of communications, Annalise C. Freling, 28, last year at a governor’s event, according to court papers filed Thursday.
“You’re so hot, you know what I want to do with you,” he allegedly said.
The documents were part of a notice of claim that legally informed the assemblyman of the women’s intent to sue.
Their accusations come during a banner year of Albany sleaze: Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) resigned amid young female staffers’ accusations that he’d asked them to massage him and fondle his cancerous tumors.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was accused by Lopez staffers of quashing their complaints, vowed Thursday to immediately bring the Gabryszak allegations to the Assembly Ethics Committee.
Gabryszak, a Buffalo-area legislator who’s been married for 37 years and has two adult children, started harassing Freling within days of hiring her, according to the court documents obtained by the Albany Times Union.
In late 2011, Gabryszak told Freling he was sending her a recorded message to play to his constituents — but instead sent her a video “of him in a bathroom, either receiving or pretending to be receiving fellatio,” the papers allege.
Freling said she quit in May after complaining to Gabryszak’s chief of staff to no avail.
Kimberly Snickles, 26, took over as communications director — and within two weeks Gabryszak invited the attractive brunette to a massage parlor and informed her at dinner “that he was more of a ‘butt’ guy than a ‘boobs’ guy,” she claimed.
In addition, “in June 2013, in the assemblyman’s office, Gabryszak told her and one of his interns a joke about him “having a tattoo on his penis,” the papers allege.
That same month, as Snickles was marching with the assemblyman in a parade and they crossed a set of train tracks, “The assemblyman asked her if she ‘liked to be tied up to them,’ ” the papers say.
Whenever Snickles and another intern traveled in the back seat of Gabryszak’s car, “he would regularly look in the rear-view mirror and ask them ‘if they were kissing each other,’ ” the papers say.
All three women described the desperate Gabryszak asking them to stay with him at his Albany apartment or, when they had to travel together, at his hotel.
“The assemblyman regularly talked about prostitutes and his regular visits to a local strip club called “Double Vision” on Route 9 in Clinton, complained the third staffer, Jamie Campbell, his former legislative director, who also quit in October.
And Gabryszak — who lives in Depew western New York with his wife, Louise, 61 — didn’t reserve his disgusting chit-chat for just underlings, the documents say. He also once jokingly referred to a colleague — Brooklyn Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis — as “Mallio-c–kkiss,” the papers state.
Last year, Gabryszak championed an anti-workplace-harassment bill.
“When you are at work, you need to have an environment that is stress-free,” Gabryszak, who is refusing to talk about the latest allegations, had told reporters at a press conference in May 2012. “You need an environment that is safe, that is conducive to doing the job that needs to be done.”
The assemblyman did not respond to messages left on his cell and office phones.