Oh Excellent! This is great and I hope this guy succeeds. Ever since this happened, below the radar, I have been ticked off. Taxpayers paying this guys punishment for his sexual misconduct, no that isn’t strong enough. Boxleys rape and sexual abuses of not only this one woman but many from reports I have seen and read.

All this happened right under Silvers nose and he chose to ignore it after being told about it by many woman. Silver claims to be the moral leader, punishes Cole, (who deserved what he got, BTW) but allowed this crap to go on in his own office. And who pays? WE DO! Our tax dollars paid the fine.

NYC taxpayer sues over state’s $480,000 sex harass payment

NEW YORK — A city resident filed a lawsuit Wednesday attempting to force Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and a former aide to repay $480,000 that the state paid to settle a rape and sexual harassment suit against the aide.

Joseph J. Santora, who lives in Manhattan and describes himself as “a citizen and a taxpayer,” says in court papers the money was paid to settle a June 2004 lawsuit in which a woman claimed she was raped and sexually harassed by James Michael Boxley.

Court papers say the legal action caused by Boxley, who was employed by the state Assembly as Silver’s chief legal counsel, was settled for $500,000, of which $480,000 was paid by the state and nothing was paid by Silver.

The sexual harassment lawsuit, filed in Albany by a plaintiff called Jane Doe, named Silver, Boxley and the Assembly as defendants.

It sought “money damages caused to Jane Doe by the rape and sexual harassment of her by Boxley, compounded by Silver’s failure to take corrective action despite his knowledge of Boxley’s conduct both as it affected Jane Doe, as well as against other females in the Albany area,” Santora’s lawsuit says.

The court papers say the state “improperly provided, at its expense, the defense of the Jane Doe action on behalf of defendant Silver.” This was an illegal expenditure of state funds, the court papers say.

Santora’s lawsuit asks the court to order Silver and Boxley to pay back the $480,000 and the legal fees expended by the state on their behalf, plus interest.

Silver’s spokesman, Charles Carrier, and Boxley said Wednesday they were unaware of Santora’s lawsuit.

A telephone message left for Santora’s lawyer, Robert McKay, was not immediately returned Wednesday.

Boxley was arrested on first- and third-degree rape charges in June 2003. He left his $130,000-a-year job as Silver’s counsel in late June 2003, just a few days after he was led out of the state Capitol in handcuffs.

Boxley pleaded guilty in December 2003 to one count of sexual misconduct. As part of the plea deal, he was sentenced in February 2004 to six years probation, fined $1,000 and had his name added to the state’s sex offender registry.

He was suspended from the practice of law after the guilty plea but was reinstated in March 2006.

Similar sex assault allegations against Boxley were made in 2001 by a female Assembly employee. She had said Boxley sexually attacked her at his apartment after a night of drinking. Criminal charges were never filed in that case, and an internal Assembly investigation ended without action against Boxley.