COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Additional information has been uncovered in connection with the sexual harassment investigation involving the attorney general's office.

The attorney for two female staffers claiming they were harassed spoke with NBC 4's Patrick Preston on Tuesday.

Attorney Rex Elliott said his clients, Cindy Stankoski and Vanessa Stout, were questioned by investigators for hours on Monday -- and were relieved to learn of the suspension of Leo Jennings and Anthony Gutierrez, calling it a step in the right direction.

Elliott said his clients will wait until the investigation is complete before deciding whether to file a lawsuit, but he is already making the case that his clients have been wronged.

"It's been embarrassing. It's been humiliating. They've been afraid," he said.

Elliott said his clients were harassed repeatedly over a period of months, and that the harassment is documented in text messages, journal writings and witness accounts.

One of the alleged incidents is said to have taken place at the Dublin townhome shared by Gutierrez, Jennings and Attorney General Marc Dann.

"You're talking about somebody who is a supervisor making unwanted sexual advances to a subordinate -- somebody with a great deal of power, somebody who has the ability to influence a job, retaliate against and employee or even scare an employee -- and that's what we're talking about here. We're talking about an imbalance of power and the employee feeling that no is really not an option," Elliott said.

Elliott said Gutierrez brought Stankoski to the townhouse after a night of drinking. She would grow tired and later wake up with Gutierrez next to her in his underwear with her pants undone. It's a key allegation in the case, but why did Stankoski go to the home of a person who was allegedly harassing her?

"When you are told things that give you fear for your job, that you're going to be retaliated against, that your parents are in jeopardy, you are in a stranger's car on the other side of town, you don't have an exit path, all those types of things go into how she was in that situation," Elliott said.

Elliott said he expects the investigation to wrap up by next week.

NBC 4 called the attorney general's office, where officials said they could not say when the investigation would wrap up.

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