Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s head of security accused of sexual harassment but Zuckerberg may not have been aware of the allegations

According to reports, personal security chief of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is w accused of sexual misconduct and making racist and homophobic comments. 

As per Business Insider report (paywalled), Zuckerberg's personal security chief Liam Booth faces accusations of discriminatory conduct and severe levels of sexual harassment and battery, including racist and homophobic comments about members of Zuckerberg’s staff and his wife, Priscilla Chan.

report cited legal letters reportedly written by two former employees of Zuckerberg’s household staff.

Liam Booth is a former Secret Service officer, according to his LinkedIn profile. Since 2017, he has been with Mark Zuckerberg's family charitable organisation, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, as Chief Security Officer.

A spokesman from family office of Zuckerberg and Chan said Booth has been placed on ministrative leave pending an investigation of unspecified misconduct allegations. spokesman said office takes workplace misconduct complaints seriously.

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“ family office takes complaints of workplace misconduct very seriously and our human resources team promptly investigates all such matters,” Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Zuckerberg’s various privately employed entities, told Business Insider.

“ allegations against Liam Booth were brought to office’s attention for first time by Bloom Firm after both former employees h left employment by family office and engd legal counsel. As soon as Bloom Firm presented se allegations, family office engd Munger, Tolles & Olson, an outside law firm, to conduct an investigation of all allegations me by Bloom Firm to determine wher claims have merit. investigation is ongoing. Mr. Booth is on ministrative leave pending completion of this investigation.”

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Bloom Firm is yet to comment. Iconiq Capital, firm that mans Zuckerberg’s affairs that includes security, is yet to comment. 

Facebook spent $20 million on security costs for Zuckerberg and his family at his residences and while traveling in 2018, according to a regulatory filing.

Booth says he has over 25-years of experience in corporate security, local, state, and federal law enforcement, security operations, intelligence briefings and analysis, critical infrastructure protection, threat assessment and protection of nation's highest leers.

(With inputs from Associated Press)