More charges filed in staged sexual assault case

%{[ data-embed-type=”image” data-embed-id=”57150c3b89121ca96b95f754″ data-embed-element=”aside” ]}%Two people accused of staging a sexual assault to up the ante in a sexual harassment lawsuit against a Kansas City luxury car dealer are now facing federal conspiracy charges.

KCTV-5 caught the man in the sexual-assault-for-hire plot, Gordon Reabe Jr. (pictured on the right), on video outside the federal courthouse yesterday. They say Reabe, 51, is married with children. He’s an accountant “with an apparent gambling problem.” He’s also free on bond, although a federal magistrate judge has apparently taken away Reabe’s favorite vice and imposed a curfew and electronic monitoring.

The latest charges are in addition to federal wire fraud charges announced in January.

The case is a bizarre one. Unhappy with a settlement

offer from their former employer, a Kansas City Mercedes-Benz

dealership, 39-year-old Julie Bernet of Bucyrus, Kansas, and

23-year-old Lindsey Crawford of Kansas City offered Reabe $100,000 to assault them in an effort to

force a higher settlement from the car dealer, prosecutors allege.