Senator Alvarado-Gil Files Countersuit Against Former Chief Of Staff
Sacramento, CA — Allegations are flying from both sides between Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil and her former Chief of Staff Chad Condit.
We reported earlier that Condit filed a civil lawsuit in September against Alvarado-Gil for alleged sexual harassment. Condit, who is married, claimed that he was pressured by the Senator to perform unwanted sexual acts on multiple occasions and even suffered a back injury at one point as a result. He is the son of former Valley Congressman, Gary Condit.
Alvarado-Gil has now filed a counter lawsuit, a cross-complaint, alleging that Condit had stolen $50,000 from her campaign and had abused alcohol and drugs while he was employed. She also argues that he used his position, and conspired with his son, a Stanislaus County Supervisor, to secure a $5,000,000 budget allocation that Alvarado-Gil didn’t know about. In addition, the lawsuit states that Condit threatened her, by saying that he knows how to make people disappear, and if she were a man, he would “kick (her) ass.” Alvarado-Gil felt the making people disappear statement was in relation to Chandra Levy, an acquaintance of his father Gary Condit, who disappeared and was later found dead, decades ago.
The lawsuit also argues that Chad Condit had actually injured his back during a Disneyland vacation (as opposed to during sexual acts) and had become increasingly disruptive over time.
While Condit was supposed to be on medical leave, Alvarado-Gil argues in the lawsuit that he attended a district office holiday party in December of 2023 and was found intoxicated in the bathroom, “with his pants around his ankles, yelling for help.”
It is the latest saga in the back-and-forth between the Senator and her former Chief of Staff. The lawsuits, with the publicly released allegations, were filed after Alvarado-Gil left the Democratic Party to become a Republican. Her Senate District covers the Mother Lode region, including all of Calaveras and Tuolumne counties.
