“Maid awarded $350G after grope”

This, from yesterday’s Daily News, is not about Dominique Strauss-Kahn (there seems to be an endless supply of international businessmen and politicians who think it’s OK to sexually assault American women):

A Manhattan federal judge recommended Monday that an Egyptian businessman who sexually assaulted a maid inside his $900-a-night room at The Pierre pay the woman $350,000.

Magistrate Judge Michael Dolinger set the damage award after Mahmoud Abdel-Salam Omar never responded to the lawsuit.

Last June, Omar, then 74, pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor in Manhattan Criminal Court for kissing the maid on her lips and groping her breasts.

He was arrested May 30 after the woman went to police to report being attacked when she went to Omar’s room at a midtown hotel to deliver tissues. — Robert Gearty

I bolded that “never responded” because it’s important, to me especially: when the Skush-O’Briens failed to show up in Housing Court last week, Judge Peter Wendt fined them.

Remember, I’ve written about showing up? It’s important.

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