I hate Dominic Foppoli : Windsor mayor accused of rape faces furious public
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Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli, center bottom row, speaks during a town council meeting on April 14, 2021. Constituents demanded he step down after multiple allegations of sexual assault.Windsor Town Council/Screenshot
Windsor mayor Dominic Foppoli faced the furious public for the first time Wednesday since at least six women stepped forward with accusations of sexual assault and rape.
The women told the San Francisco Chronicle that Foppoli, 38, assaulted them. The alleged incidents took place from 2002 to 2019 and include claims of forced oral copulation and rape, prompting the Sonoma County Sheriff s Office to open an investigation. (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.)
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Dominic Foppoli, mayor of Windsor, Calif., in his official portrait. The mayor has been accused by multiple women of sexual assaults dating back to 2002.Windsor Town Council/Handout
The mayor of Windsor, a small town in Sonoma County, is under a sheriff s investigation after five women stepped forward with allegations of sexual assault.
Five women told the San Francisco Chronicle that Dominic Foppoli, 38, assaulted them. The alleged incidents took place from 2002 to 2019 and include claims of forced oral copulation and rape, prompting the Sonoma County Sheriff s Office to open an investigation, the Chronicle reported. (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.)
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Updated: April 8, 2021 4:01 a.m.
In the summer of 2019, Rose Fumoso left her home in southern France to intern at a Sonoma County winery, where the 21-year-old greeted customers in the tasting room and assessed the ripeness of grapes from the vineyard. As the season wound down in September, a friend invited Fumoso to a party celebrating the end of harvest.
There, she met the host: Dominic Foppoli, the mayor of Windsor.
A small town in the heart of Wine Country, Windsor has transformed in recent years from a sleepy neighbor of Healdsburg to a tourist destination. Much of that rise has been credited to Foppoli, a young winery owner whose political star and push for development have attracted outside investments in the community.