Harassment suit against Sweeney is dropped The powerful Glouco pol says he's happy it's over.

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, August, 2007 | by Sam Wood Inquirer Staff Writer

A lawsuit accusing Gloucester County's most powerful politician of sexually harassing a senior Democratic Party official has been dropped.

Stephen M. Sweeney, director of the county Board of Freeholders and a Democratic state senator, said yesterday he felt ecstatic to be vindicated.

"It's been like living in a dime store novel," Sweeney said. "I'm just very happy it's over and my name's been cleared."

Diane Kirwan-Patterson, once the acting executive director of the Gloucester County Democratic Party, filed a harassment lawsuit in October, contending that Sweeney made sexually suggestive comments to her on numerous occasions in the late 1990s.

Her lawyer, Clifford Van Syoc, withdrew the case...

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