In many places you do not have to be a direct supervisor in order to be found guilty of sexual harassment. You simply have to be "management" while whoever you supposedly harassed is "not management."
It would not be hard to convince someone that as a manager you have more sway with other managers than a bottom-rung employee would. It would then not be hard to conceive of a situation where you told the woman "have sex with me or I'll tell your manager, my coworker, to give you a hard time." Whether you did that or not would be immaterial - you would still be in hot water over it.
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