Barrette Green’s exploits have now cost the state of Washington (and thus the taxpayers) over $3 million (plus attorney’s fees). The former Western State Hospital official was accused of sexually abusing at least 15 female employees before he was fired in 2003. Green used his position as president of a Washington Federation of State Employees union local to threaten and intimidate the hospital workers. During his tenure he was even given a raise and promotion, becoming the hospital’s risk manager. One of the victims, Jackie Delgado, accused Green of harassing her repeatedly between 1989 and 2003, pressuring her into a sexual relationship and at one point holding an unloaded gun to her head, pulling the trigger and saying “See how easy a person can die?” Several employees finally reached their limit, and filed suit against Green. All were settled out of court, and along the way a lawsuit Green brought against the state over his firing was dismissed in 2005 by an appeals board that found that three women had made credible accusations against him.
