Background
McGreevey met Cipel while on a junket to Israel in 2000. Cipel was working as a public affairs officer for a municipal government. Cipel later moved to New Jersey in order to provide outreach to the Jewish community on behalf of McGreevey's gubernatorial campaign.
McGreevey eventually appointed Cipel as a counselor to the Governor, a position from which he resigned in August 2002 to take a position at the public relations firm MWW.
Cipel's intention to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against McGreevey in Mercer County Court led to McGreevey's decision to resign as governor on August 12, 2004.
Cipel dropped the lawsuit after McGreevey resigned, stating that justice had been served.
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