A Navy Lieutenant at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam faced allegations of sexual harassment from three enlisted Sailors on his boat. They accused him of making multiple sexually charged comments and soliciting them for dates.
Confronted with a case file exceeding 1,000 pages, the Lieutenant engaged the services of a recognized military sexual harassment defense attorney, Tim Bilecki, due to the case’s complexity and the skepticism of other lawyers about its winnability.
Tim represented the Lieutenant at the Board of Inquiry. He challenged the apparent weight of three accusations by examining the relationship among the accusers: they were friends, and the defense identified a possible shared motive to fabricate. The Lieutenant also testified, giving the board his own account to weigh against theirs.
The board unanimously found no basis for the sexual harassment allegations. The Lieutenant remained in the Navy.
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