Krafins Valcin

Introduction

Krafins Valcin is a senior director of academic collaboration technology at the City University of New York (CUNY), an information-technology leader who has worked at the university for roughly two decades. In September 2026, a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court accused him of groping a female subordinate, subjecting her to degrading sexual comments, and exposing his genitals to her during a car ride home from an office happy hour — and of remaining in his post without any employment consequences afterward.

Background Information

Valcin spent his IT career at CUNY, where his role as senior director of academic collaboration technology placed him overseeing technology services for the university. A CUNY phone directory from his earlier career listed him as an Academic Applications Support Manager in the university’s computing and information services department, and his professional profile describes nineteen years of progressive information-technology experience in application life-cycle management. The accuser, a 34-year-old IT senior associate, had worked with him for about half a year before the incident and said the two had no prior problems.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Allegations. The claims in this section are allegations from a civil lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court in September 2026, which recounted conduct alleged to have occurred in December 2025. They were never admitted by Krafins Valcin, never criminally charged, and never adjudicated in court. Valcin denies the claims, saying he was “shocked” by the lawsuit.

The lawsuit, filed on September 29, 2026, centers on the evening of December 2, 2025. According to court papers, the woman agreed to carpool home with Valcin from an office happy hour in Manhattan because they both live in New Jersey. As they walked to his car, she said, he abruptly grabbed her fingers and told her, “I can tell you have a fat p—y.” She was, in her own account, “utterly shocked,” and made clear she had no interest in him — but the harassment did not stop there.

During the drive, the lawsuit claims, Valcin made countless sexual innuendos and rubbed her thigh “toward her genitals.” When he dropped her at the Newark train station where her car was parked, he allegedly parked in front of her vehicle to block her from leaving, walked over to the driver’s side, swung open her door, and forced her hand onto his erect penis while saying, “This is what you do to me.” Once she freed her hand, he dropped his pants and exposed his genitals to her, the court papers claim.

She reported the encounter to Newark police, but the case was dropped over lack of video evidence, a source familiar with the situation told the New York Post. Valcin allegedly begged for forgiveness afterward and told her he had “more to lose” than she did.

When reached by phone by the Post, Valcin said he was “shocked” by the lawsuit and denied groping the woman, declining to comment further. No criminal charges are recorded against him, and the allegations remain unadjudicated.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The story, broken as a New York Post exclusive on October 3, 2026, drew attention less for the alleged assault alone than for what followed inside CUNY: according to the lawsuit, nothing. The woman contacted CUNY’s Title IX office in January 2026 after suffering panic attacks at work. She says officials issued a no-contact order between her and Valcin in February 2026, but that he remains in his position — a senior director — without any reprimand or change to his employment.

Her lawyer, Gerald Cohen, told the Post: “The worst part is that after being subjected to her co-worker’s inappropriate and degrading sexual advances, CUNY did nothing to reprimand or alter the perpetrator’s employment. Rather than ensuring a safe work environment for the plaintiff, CUNY actually placed the burden on her to adjust her entire workplace to avoid him.” A CUNY spokesperson responded that the university “takes allegations of sexual assault and harassment seriously” but could not comment further on pending litigation.

Current Status

Valcin remains a senior director at CUNY, still employed in his position while the lawsuit is pending. The complainant has not returned to the office since the alleged assault and has been working from home, saying she remains traumatized. No criminal case exists — the Newark police complaint was dropped for lack of video evidence — and the civil suit, which names the conduct alleged rather than any court finding, has not progressed to any adjudication. CUNY, for its part, has taken no public disciplinary action against him.

Impact on Their Career/Life

For now, Valcin’s career has continued uninterrupted: he keeps his senior director title and his post at the university despite the public allegations. The reputational exposure is nonetheless real — the lawsuit attaches detailed allegations of sexual assault and harassment to a named public-university administrator, and the university’s institutional response, a no-contact order that left him in place, is itself now part of the public record. The complainant’s working life, by contrast, changed immediately: out of the office, working from home since the alleged assault, in the same workplace as the man she accused.

Sources

• New York Post, “CUNY exec exposed himself, groped worker while driving her home from happy hour: lawsuit,” October 3, 2026 — source