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A Secret Report About a CEO's Sexual Misconduct Was Just Made Public by Congress (Zia Chishti)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/12/22/sexual-abuse-congress-lawsuit-00075061A Secret Report About a CEO’s Sexual Misconduct Was Just Made Public by Congress
Zia Chishti, the politically-connected Washington entrepreneur, sued an ex-employee who he says lied to the Judiciary Committee. An old arbitration report tells another story.
By MICHAEL SCHAFFER
12/22/2022 04:30 AM EST
Michael Schaffer is a senior editor at POLITICO. His Capital City column runs weekly in POLITICO Magazine.
Last week, after Zia Chishti filed a defamation lawsuit against the woman whose wrenching Congressional testimony about alleged sexual abuse cost Chishti his job as CEO of the unicorn AI firm Afiniti, Chishti explained himself by saying that “at this stage, I have nothing to lose.”
He may have spoken too soon.
On Saturday, a day after this column reported on the formerly high-flying Washington business figure’s unusual legal move against an ex-employee who testified under oath, the House Judiciary Committee entered a sharply critical 2019 arbitration tribunal ruling about Chishti’s workplace behavior into the Congressional Record — instantaneously turning the heretofore secret report into a publicly-available document.
The release, quietly added to the record of an unrelated hearing on a late-December weekend afternoon, amounts to a tidy Washington-procedural way of saying: Don’t mess with our witness.
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Zia Chishti, the politically-connected Washington entrepreneur, sued an ex-employee who he says lied to the Judiciary Committee. An old arbitration report tells another story.
By MICHAEL SCHAFFER
12/22/2022 04:30 AM EST
Michael Schaffer is a senior editor at POLITICO. His Capital City column runs weekly in POLITICO Magazine.
Last week, after Zia Chishti filed a defamation lawsuit against the woman whose wrenching Congressional testimony about alleged sexual abuse cost Chishti his job as CEO of the unicorn AI firm Afiniti, Chishti explained himself by saying that “at this stage, I have nothing to lose.”
He may have spoken too soon.
On Saturday, a day after this column reported on the formerly high-flying Washington business figure’s unusual legal move against an ex-employee who testified under oath, the House Judiciary Committee entered a sharply critical 2019 arbitration tribunal ruling about Chishti’s workplace behavior into the Congressional Record — instantaneously turning the heretofore secret report into a publicly-available document.
The release, quietly added to the record of an unrelated hearing on a late-December weekend afternoon, amounts to a tidy Washington-procedural way of saying: Don’t mess with our witness.
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