Af­ter dis­miss­ing CFO over 'i­nap­pro­pri­ate mes­sages,' Eli Lil­ly faces new ac­cu­sa­tions of sex­u­al dis­crim­i­na­tion and ha­rass­ment

A month af­ter oust­ing CFO Josh Smi­ley for send­ing “in­ap­pro­pri­ate mes­sages” to em­ploy­ees, Eli Lil­ly is fac­ing new al­le­ga­tions that an ex­ec­u­tive and a se­nior man­ag­er at its Wash­ing­ton, DC of­fice sex­u­al­ly dis­crim­i­nat­ed against and ha­rassed mul­ti­ple women.

Sonya Elling, a for­mer Lil­ly lob­by­ist of about 16 years, filed a law­suit in fed­er­al court last Fri­day ac­cus­ing her sec­ond-lev­el su­per­vi­sor Leigh Ann Pusey of mak­ing sex­ist re­marks about her, un­der­min­ing her au­thor­i­ty, and sub­ject­ing her to a “sex­u­al­ly hos­tile work en­vi­ron­ment,” even­tu­al­ly forc­ing her to re­sign.

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