Harrisburg, Pa. • Pennsylvania taxpayers funded a quarter-million-dollar settlement over claims of sexual harassment against a longtime state representative, according to government records, prompting a call from the governor on Tuesday for the lawmaker to resign.
Gov. Tom Wolf said state Rep. Tom Caltagirone, a fellow Democrat who has represented the Reading area for four decades, should quit. Caltagirone did not respond to messages seeking comment.
The Philadelphia Inquirer and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette first reported on a document prepared by the state’s Bureau of Risk and Insurance Management that said House Democrats in 2015 authorized paying $165,500 to the unidentified woman and $82,500 to her lawyer.