UPDATE: The case against Matt Fontana was dismissed with prejudice, according to Orange County Superior Court documents filed on April 8, 2013.
ORIGINAL POST, JULY 12, 2012: The pot-smoking boss of a Santa Ana skate shop forced employees to pose for “sexually prurient” ads, work with “crude and questionably pornographic material” and, if they piped up about sexual harassment and drug use on the job, quit or be demoted, claims a lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court.
One Distribution Co. and its Vice President of Global Brands Matt Fontana are named in the complaint brought by Deborah Pernice Knefe of Irvine’s William M. Crosby, Barnes, Crosby, Fitzgerald & Zelman on behalf of three males and two females who used to work at the shop.
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