…The management company that runs a popular Hilton hotel in… San Gabriel… agreed Wednesday to pay $500,000 to settle two lawsuits filed by former Latino workers alleging racial discrimination and sexual harassment. When Landwin Management Inc. took over management of the hotel… some Latino banquet servers were fired and replaced with less qualified Chinese workers, according to attorneys at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission… Stephen Ronk, a lawyer for Landwin, said… "We don't make decisions to hire anyone based on their ethnicity”… The settlement included a sexual harassment lawsuit… Female employees in the housekeeping department alleged that they had been targets of verbal abuse… and that Landwin ignored their complaints. "There is no merit whatsoever to these claims," Ronk said…