Monday - November 14, 2005

Hell Hath No Fury …

... like a female political boss who has been spurned. Especially in the concrete jungles of New York politics. The jury found her guilty of sexual harassment but awarded him no money. I guess they assumed he got his money’s worth over an 18-month long period of “harassment”.

This story wins our “Sleaze Award Du Jour” (unless something better comes along before close of business this afternoon - which is why we wait patiently for San Francisco to trump this one with another ace in the hole - so to speak). For those who cherish the really sleazy stuff, skip ahead to paragraph six ...

HARBOR STUD: POL WANTED SEX FIVE TIMES PER WEEK
November 14, 2005
NEW YORK (NY POST)

A Long Island jury found that Huntington ex-Councilwoman Susan Scarpati-Reilly coerced harbormaster Bill Perks into sex but awarded him no money. The Long Island harbormaster at the center of a scintillating sex scandal is speaking for the first time since a court found he was sexually harassed by his former boss — calling the woman “insatiable.” During their 18-month affair, Huntington ex-Councilwoman Susan Scarpati-Reilly lusted for kinky sex in public places and “was a sexual-predator politician,” said former Huntington harbormaster Bill Perks, breaking his silence in an exclusive interview with The Post.

“She had an appetite that could not be believed. She had an insatiable desire for sex.” The interview came after a federal jury found Perks, 53, was “subjected to unwelcome sexual advances or demands” by Scarpati-Reilly. The jury also determined that the married 53-year-old councilwoman’s advances “resulted in a tangible employment action” affecting his job — but it did not award Perks a dime.

“I was the hunted harbormaster, and the jury found that I was the sexually harassed harbormaster,” Perks said, looking over Centerport Harbor from the deck of his home.  Perks said the secret affair began when Scarpati-Reilly became his protector in the rough-and-tumble world of Huntington politics and they began “going out for beers,” which led to a friendship and, later, sex up to five times a week, he claims.

Over 18 months, Perks said they had consensual sex more than 200 times — in Town Hall, on his houseboat, “in the weeds” at a nude beach on Fire Island, in cars and in motels. In their first after-hours erotic encounter, Perks said he was “extremely nervous” when Scarpati-Reilly led him to a Town of Huntington attorney’s office, closed the door and told him: “I need to be hugged.”

“The next thing you know,” Perks said, “the groping began and the clothes were coming off.” He said they had sex “on the floor and on the desk. Having sex in Town Hall is more complicated than it sounds.” He said the politician and former prosecutor swore him to secrecy. They were never caught and all went well — until Perks found a girlfriend, fell in love and tried to end the affair with the councilwoman in the summer of 1998.

Perks claims that, when he tried to bail out of the relationship, the politician threatened to scuttle his job — unless he kept servicing her. In one encounter, he said, Scarpati-Reilly showed him an order demanding his termination.  “She demanded that I drop to my knees and beg her to keep my job, which I did,” said Perks. That incident in her office, he said, also led to oral sex — but he could not perform because of the pressure.

“She said, ‘What? Have you turned gay on me?’ I begged her” to continue the alleged affair, said Perks. “Make no mistake — in her office, she forced me to have sex.” At the four-week federal civil trial, Scarpati-Reilly, her husband, Steve, and their 22-year-old son all testified that the politician spent a weekend at upstate Mohonk resort with her husband — not Perks. But Perks insists that it was he, not Steve Reilly, who was with the councilwoman at the hotel that weekend.

“I was shtupping his wife. We had a blowout. It was a beautiful spot,” Perks said. “And I was not reading a book,” he said, with a grin, referring to Reilly’s testimony that that’s how he himself spent that weekend. Perks said he will not give up the ship and he and his lawyer Ed Yule said they will appeal the verdict. Yule called the verdict “inconsistent” and said he hoped an appeals court will recognize that, as well as several other “errors,” and grant Perks a new trial.

Scarpati-Reilly at first agreed to an interview and then canceled it, citing a lawyer’s advice, her husband said. She has denied she ever had sex with Perks and claims he made up the sensational claims after she accused him of slapping her during a confrontation in 1999.

kieran.crowley@nypost.com

Posted by The Skipper     on 11/14/2005 at 09:55 AM   
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