A prominent New York attorney who specializes in defending policemen was charged Friday with groping two female colleagues in his Manhattan office, the New York Times reports. It appears 68-year-old Richard Dienst did not enter a plea when he was arraigned on charges of forcible touching, third-degree sex abuse and harassment.
The criminal complaint depicted how Dienst touched his female colleagues on their breasts and lower back at the Queller, Fisher, Dienst, Serrins, Washor & Kool law firm.
“I just want to see how great your t--s look,” Dienst said when he touched one of the women’s’ breasts on March 21, the complaint charged. “I just want to feel how great your t--s feel,” he added, quoted by the New York Daily News.
According to the complaint, Dienst lifted up the woman’s shirt and tried to “place his mouth on informant’s breast, without permission or authority” and after she “asked the defendant to stop.”
“Look what you did to an old man,” Dienst said while he “placed his hand down the back of the informant's pants.” “You made an old man’s weekend,” he added.
It seems that earlier, on June 22, 2007, Dienst “grabbed and stroked” another female lawyer’s breasts and lower back without permission.
Both incidents happened in his 18th-floor law offices in the Woolworth Building on Broadway, authorities said.
Richard Dienst is the father of Emmy-award winning reporter Jonathan Dienst of WNBC/Channel 4. He would face up to a year in prison if convicted at trial.
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