A downtown Tulsa restaurant co-owner has been charged and arrested on allegations that he sexually assaulted multiple female employees, the Tulsa Police Department reported.
The department said its Special Victims Unit recently began an investigation into the allegations involving Nabil Alame, co-owner of The Goat Bar and Kitchen, at 222 S. Kenosha Ave. in the East Village.
According to a Tulsa Police Department social media post, “multiple female employees came forward sharing disturbing details of being sexually assaulted at Alame’s apartment and at The Goat restaurant. Additionally, several women described a toxic work environment.”
The women also alleged that Alame slapped them on the buttocks, forced them to drink alcohol, forced them to use cocaine, spit on them, threatened them with firing or with loss of hours, and called them demeaning names.
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Prosecutors in the Tulsa County District Attorney’s Office charged Alame on Thursday with three counts of first-degree rape by instrumentation; three counts of preparing, distributing or exhibiting obscene material; and two counts of sexual battery, court records show.
Police arrested him Thursday afternoon, and he was released from the Tulsa County jail on $350,000 bond on Friday afternoon, jail records indicate.