Police clerk who recorded 69 male coworkers in the bathroom is headed to prison

Police clerk who recorded 69 male coworkers in the bathroom is headed to prison

A former police clerk who admitted to filming 69 of his male colleagues in the bathroom has been sentenced to 6 years in prison.

Sergio Nieto set up recording devices in the men’s restroom of Long Beach Police headquarters. He was arrested with roughly 115 recordings of the 69 victims in his possession.

The behavior came to light after one of Nieto’s co-workers witnessed what they reported to be Nieto behaving suspiciously in the restroom.

At the time of his arrest, legal analyst Alexandra Kazarian said:

“It’s all misdemeanor conduct. So even though it sounds really creepy and sounds like an invasion of privacy it’s a very low level invasion of privacy but misdemeanor counts can be stacked. So if it’s the same victim at different times than each time, that six months can be stacked.”

Following his conviction, Long Beach City Prosecutor Doug Haubert said in a statement:

“This case was disturbing on many levels, but it is the complete betrayal of trust that many people cannot fathom. This is the most serious case of invasion of privacy I have seen in my 20 years as a prosecutor.”

Once Nieto has served his time, he’ll be on probation for five years. Should he violate the terms, he could see another 28 and a half years in prison.

“Any slip-up and that’s probably what you’re going to get, and it won’t bother me in the least to give it to you,” Judge Christopher J. Frisco said.

“You’re remanded. Good luck,” said the judge as the hearing closed.

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Jury Awards Gay Spouse of Deceased Smoker $157.4 Million in Suit Against Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds

Jury Awards Gay Spouse of Deceased Smoker $157.4 Million in Suit Against Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds

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A Broward County, Florida jury awarded $157.4 million to the gay spouse of a deceased smoker in a wrongful death lawsuit against tobacco giants Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds. Bryan Rintoul’s husband Edward Caprio died of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in 2018. $9.2 million in compensatory damages and $148.2 million in punitive damages were awarded.

The case differed from other cases against big tobacco, in that it was the first time a gay couple had won, and same-sex marriage was a factor in the case.

Local10 reports: “Florida law allows spouses to sue for wrongful death only if they were married before the person got sick. However, Jonathan Gdanski of Schlesinger Law Offices claimed the couple would have been married before Edward developed COPD in 1996 if same-sex marriages had been legal at the time. Although the couple married in 2015, Rintoul and Caprio had been together since the 1970s. The jury agreed…”

The Sun Sentinel adds: “The five-week trial that ended Friday combined the Schlesinger firm’s persistence in tobacco cases with a newer legal frontier — ensuring that same-sex couples are not penalized for being unable to marry legally until relatively recently. Broward Circuit Judge David Haimes allowed the case to proceed with Rintoul as the plaintiff after Caprio died early last year at 74. ‘There hasn’t been another case like this in Florida,’ Schlesinger said. ‘I’m not sure there’s been another case nationwide.’”

Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds are expected to appeal.

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Jury Awards Gay Spouse of Deceased Smoker $157.4 Million in Suit Against Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds

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Meet the man who may become America’s first Black gay congressman

Meet the man who may become America’s first Black gay congressman

Mondaire Jones is a Harvard Law School grad and Obama Justice Department alum currently running to represent New York’s 17th congressional district. Last week, he turned his relatively quiet campaign up roughly ten decimals by releasing an emotional campaign video.

“I didn’t come from money. I’m Black. I’m gay. And so I don’t see people like me in office very often,” Jones, who first announced his candidacy to little fanfare in a June Medium post, says. “Everyday we wake up and it feels like the world is on fire.”

“We don’t need more millionaires in Congress,” he says later in the video. “We need more people of color, more young people, more queer people.”

“We need more people in office who understand that experience, who can speak to people who have been shut out of the political process. The stakes are too high for us to just sit out on the sidelines.”

White kids used to spit on my grandfather while he walked to school in the Jim Crow South.

Now I’m running to be the first black, openly gay Congressmember in America. Watch our first campaign ad & help us make history: t.co/rxvQCmja2O pic.twitter.com/B5QFioKBr8

— Mondaire Jones (@MondaireJones) November 14, 2019

Speaking to NBC, Jones says he’s “proud” to be a part of the wave of fresh faces with their sights set on Washington, D.C. in 2020, though he admits there was once a time he didn’t think it would ever be possible.

Jones, who came out when he was 24, says he never thought he could run for office “because it would mean that I had to be my authentic self.”

“Not only had I not yet come to terms with that aspect of myself, but I certainly doubted that other people would be accepting of it,” he explains. “But so much has changed over the past decade, and even over the past five years.”

“Growing up, struggling with my self-acceptance, if I had been able to look to an example like what I would provide, someone who is a respectable individual, an openly gay black man in Congress, life would have been a lot better for me.”

So Jones decided to be the change he wanted to see. If elected in 2020, he will become America’s first Black gay U.S. congressman.

Related: This man hopes to make history as the first out gay Black congressman in Mississippi

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