Federal Housing Agency Employee Secretly Taped Director's Sexual Advances Toward Her

NPR: Melvin Watt, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, stands accused of sexual harassment. Simone Grimes, an employee at the agency, says she secretly recorded conversations with Watt and that the recordings bolster her harassment, retaliation and equal-pay claims against Watt and the agency.

In 2015, she had been filling two jobs — hers and one she'd been promoted to. But she never got the pay increase she'd been promised. That decision, she was told, would require sign-off from the director.

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