Fabian Basabe waves to the crowd on Ocean Drive, including people protesting his voting record in Tallahassee, during the Miami Beach Pride Parade on April 16, 2023. - Carl Juste/Miami Herald/TNS
Two former staffers for Florida Rep. Fabian Basabe filed a lawsuit Thursday detailing allegations of sexual harassment and unwanted touching by the freshman Republican lawmaker. The lawsuit says Basabe made repeated lewd sexual comments and advances toward a legislative aide and an intern, slapped the aide’s butt without his consent while they attended an elementary school career day, and groped and tried to kiss a Florida State University graduate student in a car before hiring him as an intern. The suit filed in Leon County Circuit Court also repeats a claim by Basabe’s former legislative ai...
