Harris’s Husband Doug Emhoff Accused of Being a ‘Misogynist’ at Law Firm

Harris’s Husband Doug Emhoff Accused of Being a ‘Misogynist’ at Law Firm

The Daily Mail dropped another report with accusations against VP Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff.

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

Attorneys who worked with Emhoff at the Los Angeles law firm Venable described as a “misogynist” and hired trophy secretaries:

Attorneys who worked with Doug Emhoff at his former firm Venable say he yelled expletives, held a men-only cocktail hour in the office, revoked work perks from women who didn’t flirt with him, and took only young, attractive associates in a limousine to a ball.

A 2019 lawsuit also claimed sex discrimination by other partners in the LA office Emhoff ran, and that while engaged to Harris, he hired an ‘unqualified’ part-time model as a legal secretary ‘because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office’.

Emhoff worked at the law firm from 2006 to 2017.

Emhoff displayed “a**hole” behavior towards females:

One senior former staffer claimed Emhoff ‘bragged’ about yelling ‘get the f*** out of my office’ to a female partner at the firm, later telling his top male colleagues that he had ‘put her in her place’.

‘She had to ask him something,’ the ex-staffer said. ‘His office door was closed. She said to his secretary, ‘is he on the phone?’ She said no. She tapped on the door, he didn’t answer, so she slightly opened the door and stuck her head in.

‘He said “get the f*** out of my office.”

‘What’s worse was he bragged about it to the management at Venable and they were aghast. He’s an a**hole. He told them how he “put her in her place”. A misogynist, that’s who does that.’

Another described Emhoff as “flirty.” If you didn’t flirt back or give him a positive response, you ended up “on his s**t list.

The same lawyer said Emhoff played favorites. If you didn’t flirt with him, then “you wouldn’t get to work on the cases you wanted to work on.”

Another female colleague claimed Emhoff liked “young, pretty girls” at Venable:

A woman who worked under Emhoff as a junior attorney at Venable told DailyMail.com that he favored ‘young, pretty girls’ at the firm.

‘If there was an event, like the Justice Ball, he would favor certain people. Usually it was young, pretty girls. And he would prefer for them to ride with him. He would get a limo,’ she said.

‘I just don’t think his behavior was appropriate for the position he was in.’

One top former Venable staffer told DailyMail.com that ‘plenty of people’ were aware of Emhoff’s alleged inappropriate behavior at the firm.

A 2019 lawsuit accusing Venable of sex discrimination did not name Emhoff as a defendant, but the woman, Marjan Rabbi, mentioned him:

The LA court filing claimed Emhoff was known for having a glamorous secretary in her 20s who was ‘unqualified’ but ‘hired because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office.’

Emhoff was the ‘Partner-in-Charge’ of the LA office when Rabbi joined in 2014.

He married then-California Attorney General Harris in August that year. He was promoted to West Coast Managing Director in 2015.

‘As early as October of 2014, Ms. Rabbi was told by [lawsuit defendant, Venable partner Alex] Weingarten, who yelled at her, that she was “useless to him” and like a “child”,’ Rabbi’s August 2019 complaint said.

‘Finally, he drove her from his desk after deciding that he deserved a young, attractive secretary like his partner Douglas Emhoff had. Her name, Katya, was office code. “Katya” refers to an assistant hired by Douglas Emhoff who was widely considered unqualified and hired because she was young, attractive and friendly with the powerful men in the office,’ Rabbi’s lawsuit said.

One female brought up the men-only drinks nights. Those stopped when a colleague told those in charge at Venable.

The same female claimed Emhoff “forced his colleagues to give him a cut of fees from new clients, using his control over allocating staff to new cases:”

‘If you bring in a client, you get compensated,’ she said.

‘He was in charge of the litigation department, so he staffed your cases. So if you wanted to staff your case, you had to give him part of your origination [bonus], or you didn’t get staffed. It happens in law firms all the time.’

Gee, Emhoff sounds like a swell guy!

Emhoff admitted to an affair during his first marriage with his children’s nanny and teacher.

The Second Gentleman remained silent about allegations the affair resulted in a pregnancy and a child.

Supposedly, the nanny did not keep the child. Hhhmmm…did she have an abortion??

Emhoff denied the second report of him slapping his ex-girlfriend.

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