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LAPD Officer Matthew Garza alleged harassment by Rick Jacobs, above, a onetime advisor to former Mayor Eric Garcetti. The council voted 13-0 to settle the 2020 lawsuit brought by LAPD Officer Matthew Garza, who served on Garcetti’s security detail and alleged that Rick Jacobs inappropriately hugged and touched him and made crude sexual comments over a period of several years. …

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A city-commissioned report found former deputy chief of staff Rick Jacobs, shown in 2016, didn’t inappropriately touch or make lewd comments to a LAPD officer suing the city. In her 310-page report, investigator Leslie Ellis concluded that LAPD Officer Matthew Garza wasn’t subjected to inappropriate behavior by Garcetti advisor Rick Jacobs in Los Angeles or during out-of-state trips. Garza had …

The nomination of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti as the US ambassador to India could face further delay as a top Republican Senator has sought to put the matter on hold due to a pending investigation into complaints of sexual harassment against his adviser, Rick Jacobs. The nomination of Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti as the US ambassador to India …

Mayor Eric Garcetti’s spokesman complained that a top advisor to the mayor touched his leg under a table, according to a former aide’s testimony. Now, two former Garcetti staffers have testified in separate, sworn depositions that Comisar himself complained about Jacobs’ behavior. The mayor’s primary spokesman Emmerling made her claims as part of a case filed by LAPD officer Matthew …

A former high-level aide to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti testified last month that former Garcetti advisor Rick Jacobs kissed both her and her husband on the mouth without their consent, and that a male Garcetti staffer separately complained to her that Jacobs made a pass at him. She said she encountered a Mafia-like culture that rewarded silence and was …

Rick Jacobs, then a senior advisor to Mayor Eric Garcetti Rick Jacobs, speaks in Beverly Hills in 2016. The allegation is the latest development in a lawsuit by Matthew Garza, a Los Angeles police officer who has accused former Garcetti advisor Rick Jacobs of sexually harassing him. Julia Brooke Ciardullo, Garcetti’s former chief legal counsel, described an incident in 2017 …

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has denied allegations that he witnessed his onetime political aide Rick Jacobs inappropriately touch the mayor’s longtime bodyguard, and denied that he heard Jacobs talk explicitly about sex, saying such behavior would be “completely out of character” for Jacobs. In his deposition, Garcetti was asked about Garza’s allegations that Jacobs massaged Garza’s shoulders, pulled him …

Rick Jacobs, center, shown in 2016, when he served as Mayor Eric Garcetti’s deputy chief of staff. “I mean, I think jokes are told, things happen, people are survivors.” Two years later, new questions are emerging about one of Garcetti’s top aides, former Deputy Chief of Staff Rick Jacobs, whom multiple men have accused of sexual misconduct. “The city and …

Rick Jacobs, center, shown in 2016, was named in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles police officer against the city of L.A. A Los Angeles police officer who served as a bodyguard for Mayor Eric Garcetti for seven years has sued the city, alleging that he was sexually harassed repeatedly by one of the mayor’s top advisors …