The owner, former property manager, and contractor of an apartment building in Lewiston will collectively pay $39,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the former property manager and his contractor sexually harassed a female tenant, with the largest share being paid by the owner.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in June 2024 alleging that from 2019 through 2020 the defendants, Robert Ross and Brian Bennett, Methuselah Tree LLC, RLR Enterprises LLC, and Henry Irvin Investments, subjected the tenant to repeated and unwanted sexual comments and touching without her consent.

According to the complaint, Ross and Bennett engaged in a “continuing and egregious pattern of quid pro quo and hostile environment sexual harassment” against the tenant, who “was in a vulnerable position

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