NEW YORK - Three busboys and other staff at an upscale Italian eatery in midtown said their supervisor molested them between orders of pricey pasta, a federal lawsuit claims.
Busboy Moises Pastor said he was just 15 years old when Oscar Velandia, a boss at Remi on E. 53rd St., started grabbing his groin and making unwanted sexual advances, the lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan federal court claims.
Pastor, who is now 18, said Velandia turned the restaurant tip pool into a sex-for-cash system, demanding Pastor allow him to perform oral sex on him when he wanted an advance, the suit says.
Another busboy, Franciso Sotarriba, said Velandia never eased up on his sexual come-ons or grabbing him even after Sotarriba refused his boss' demands for sex, the suit says.
Arturo Caravantes, a 16-year employee of the restaurant, claimed he was fired in August 2008 after he tried to organize his fellow workers.
Caravantes said he feared he would lose his job if he didn't give in to Velandia's chronic demands for oral sex.
from The New York Daily News
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