The accuser is Janette Negron-Donini, a former fire department employee who works at City Hall.
TRENTON -- The city's fire director is being investigated for allegedly touching a female city employee's breast in 2012, officials said Friday.
The accuser is Janette Negron-Donini, a former fire department employee who last summer filed a sexual harassment claim against Fire Director Qareeb Bashir, officials said.
That sexual harassment claim was recently dismissed, officials said.
And Bashir said Friday he suspects the accuser, who did not get the results she wanted in the workplace claim, is trying another avenue and he will again be exonerated.
Mercer County First Assistant Prosecutor Doris Galuchie said an initial investigation of the breast-touching allegation against Bashir was brought to the office in June.
Investigating the allegation as a criminal sexual contact, the office was unable to substantiate it and did not pursue charges against Bashir, Galuchie said.
On Thursday, the victim, and her husband met with prosecutors and presented additional evidence and asked the office to reconsider, Galuchie said.
"And we're going to review that evidence," Galuchie said. She declined to elaborate on the evidence.
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Bashir said Friday the entire episode is a fabrication - then and now
"The charges are totally ridiculous and 100 percent false," Bashir said.
"I can only assume the person, since they did not get the results they were looking for, it's here we go again," Bashir said.
"I am confident that since I was exonerated before, that the exact same thing that will happen this time," Bashir said.
Negron-Donini is a 25-year city employee and transferred from a position in the fire department to City Hall last summer, following the harassment filing.
In July 2015, she gave an interview to NJ Advance Media, detailing how the director allegedly harassed her.
She could not be reached Friday evening.
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