CONGRESS Lawmaker says harassment case from ex-staffer dismissed U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, whose district stretches from Corpus Christi to parts of Bastrop and Caldwell counties, said a harassment lawsuit filed by a former staffer has been dismissed. Lauren Greene, a former communications director in the congressman’s office, alleged in a lawsuit last year that she was sexually harassed and fired soon after she complained of a hostile work environment. Farenthold, a Republican first elected in 2010, said at the time that he expected to be vindicated. A one-paragraph “joint stipulation of dismissal” was filed in federal court in Washington on Wednesday. It says the case will be...
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