Columbus -- PJs or sweat pants? Whatever Attorney General Marc Dann's scheduler was wearing while visiting his Dublin condo one night late last summer, it was not work clothes or even jeans, according to an employee who was there.Jessica Utovich's attire arises as an issue because of a sexual-harassment complaint filed by an employee in the attorney general's office, against her boss, Anthony Gutierrez.
The events that unfolded at the condo on the evening of Sept. 10, 2007, play a crucial role in the complaint. Gutierrez has been suspended with pay while the complaint, along with one by another female employee, are investigated both inside the attorney general's office and by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The state complaint, first detailed Sunday by the Columbus Dispatch, says that while the female employee was at the Dann condo, Utovich "walked in w. pj's and laptop" and lay on the floor in front of the television to work on her computer and eat pizza.
Dann acknowledged to reporters Tuesday that Utovich, who is no longer his scheduler, was "at my house a number of different times." He said she was delivering schedules and related information because Dann prefers them on paper, not via e-mail. . . .
Oh, so that's what we're calling it these days: "delivering schedules and related information."