Eric R. Pagel was named as the Wells Fargo executive who allegedly raped the woman in a Bakersfield, Calif. hotel room in late January 2020.
A senior vice president at Wells Fargo was raped by her colleague who barged into her hotel room and assaulted her while she was intoxicated during a business trip in Southern California, according to a bombshell lawsuit.
Weitzel, who is named in the lawsuit alongside Pagel, Peterson, and Ray, left Wells Fargo in December 2020, according to his LinkedIn page. A month after his departure, he took an executive position at First Republic Bank in Manhattan Beach, Calif. The unidentified woman alleges that Pagel raped and assaulted her in her room at the Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, Calif. on the night of Jan. 28, 2020.Weitzel “opened [her] hotel room door and left her inside,” according to court documents. Jane Doe “subsequently received a knock on the door.”
Two days later, Jane Doe “confronted Pagel for an explanation on what had happened,” according to the court filing. The above image shows a hotel room at the Padre. The woman alleges that Pagel barged into her room while she was intoxicated and raped her.The doctor also told her that a rape kit would be “invalid” because she had already showered and had been sexually active with her husband since the alleged rape, the lawsuit states.
When Jane Doe complained to Weitzel about Pagel’s “inappropriate comments,” Weitzel “merely suggested that Plaintiff should not give Pagel a ‘window of opportunity’ to be inappropriate,” according to the court filing. After Jane Doe filed a report with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in April 2021, the bank finally launched an internal investigation, the lawsuit states.
A source close to the situation told The Post that Pagel was a “colleague” and a “peer” of Jane Doe, and that she did not directly report to him at the time of the alleged incident.
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