Overview

• Ernesto García Maañón’s former secretary expanded her harassment complaint with 145 WhatsApp exchanges and audios alleging sexualized messages, late‑night invitations, unwanted physical proximity and retaliatory treatment.
• An additional court employee submitted an audio in which the magistrate urges her not to testify against him and vows to pursue a claim of false accusation, according to the administrative record.
• The case is under a disciplinary sumario and a preparatory criminal investigation led by San Isidro prosecutor José Amallo, while Governor Axel Kicillof has yet to accept Maañón’s resignation filed on July 31.
• Separately, suspended judge Julieta Makintach presented a written defense asserting that colleagues and superiors knew about the documentary filming and that she has chats to support that claim.
• If Kicillof does not accept Makintach’s resignation within roughly two weeks, the jury process is set to advance after a proof‑admissibility meeting called by court president Hilda Kogan, and the judge also remains under a parallel criminal probe.