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Douglas Elliman is launching a “MeToo investigation platform” created by recent mayoral hopeful and private investigator Bo Dietl.
The brokerage and Dietl are hosting a joint press conference on Thursday to discuss the third-party portal, which would allow employees to lodge workplace misconduct and sexual harassment complaints, representatives for Dietl said. The platform is being billed as a way to file complaints “without fear of blowback from an employer” and to “bridge the gap between corporate employees and HR departments.”
Dietl’s representatives said Elliman would be the first corporate client to use the portal.
Dietl might seem like an unlikely designer for such a platform. In 2016, he told the Daily Beast that, in his experience investigating sexual harassment lawsuits, he found “98 percent of these are bullshit.” He said for the other 2 percent, the guilty parties should be punished to the “fullest extent of the law.”
According to LinkedIn, Charles Diamond, a former senior investigator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, joined Dietl’s firm in October.
When-then Fox News chairman Roger Ailes was accused of sexual harassment, Fox hired Dietl to discredit the accusers, TV personalities Gretchen Carlson and Andrea Tantaros, the Wall Street Journal reported in 2017.
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