James Patrick Stanton, a former executive with maintenance and repair company, MaintenX International in Tampa Bay. Courtesy photo.

A Florida company's former in-house attorney has agreed to allow the state to proceed with his disbarment, reports The Tampa Bay Times.

James Patrick Stanton, a former executive with maintenance and repair company MaintenX International, was accused of secretly videotaping female employees in the company's bathroom stalls and showers.  

Stanton, who was named as the company's attorney and chief financial officer in court records, signed a consent order Tuesday, agreeing to be disbarred. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the agreement now awaits approval from the Florida Supreme Court. Online bar records show Stanton as a member in good standing with no disciplinary history.

Stanton, when reached by phone Thursday, denied the allegations made against him by his former employer.

“I have been denying the allegations since they began,” he said, adding that he's ready to “move on.”

Stanton confirmed he is still a practicing attorney in Florida. “I've been practicing privately and will until I'm no longer allowed,” he said.

Though he earlier faced civil and criminal charges, Stanton was never prosecuted. He had been named as a defendant in a criminal case in a Florida court by the MaintenX employee who allegedly found and turned over the video footage, and charges were dropped due to the statute of limitations on the allegations of voyeurism made against him.

And a civil case filed by women who appeared in the videos was later settled. The attorney for the plaintiffs in the civil case did not respond for comment. 

The claims against Stanton surfaced when a former MaintenX employee in the IT department, Jeremy Lenkowski, was fixing Stanton's computer in 2010. Lenkowski, who did not immediately respond for comment, allegedly came across the videos of the nude women while repairing the computer, court records show.

Court documents also say that part of Stanton's defense was that Lenkowski was a felon who pleaded guilty “to the felony of attempted unauthorized access of … a computer interstate communication … arising from his attempt to earn $10,000 or more by obtaining proprietary information through unauthorized access to a corporate computer.”