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Does That Make It The Sexual Assaulting Infotainer Administration or The Infotaining Sexual Assaulter Administration?
Also on November 21, 2017, the House Ethics Committee launched an investigation into multiple sexual harassment allegations against Conyers.[75]
On November 22, 2017, The Washington Post reported that Melanie Sloan, founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), publicly accused Conyers of having harassed and verbally abused her during her tenure working for the House Judiciary Committee. On one occasion, Sloan alleged that Conyers had summoned to his office, where she found him sitting in his underwear; she quickly departed.[76]
Later in November 2017, there were reports that another woman accused Conyers of sexual harassment.[77] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who had initially stated that Conyers was an "icon" and had done a great deal to protect women,[78] called upon Conyers to resign. She said the allegations against him were "very credible".[79]
On December 5, 2017, aged 88, Conyers resigned his House seat because of his mounting sexual scandals.[80] The announcement came the day after another former staffer released an affidavit accusing Conyers of sexual harassment.[81] The same day, an article by The Washington Post published allegations by Courtney Morse that Conyers had threatened her with a similar fate to that of Chandra Levy, a staffer found murdered in a park in Washington, DC. She said that after she rejected his advances, he "s
On November 22, 2017, The Washington Post reported that Melanie Sloan, founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), publicly accused Conyers of having harassed and verbally abused her during her tenure working for the House Judiciary Committee. On one occasion, Sloan alleged that Conyers had summoned to his office, where she found him sitting in his underwear; she quickly departed.[76]
Later in November 2017, there were reports that another woman accused Conyers of sexual harassment.[77] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who had initially stated that Conyers was an "icon" and had done a great deal to protect women,[78] called upon Conyers to resign. She said the allegations against him were "very credible".[79]
On December 5, 2017, aged 88, Conyers resigned his House seat because of his mounting sexual scandals.[80] The announcement came the day after another former staffer released an affidavit accusing Conyers of sexual harassment.[81] The same day, an article by The Washington Post published allegations by Courtney Morse that Conyers had threatened her with a similar fate to that of Chandra Levy, a staffer found murdered in a park in Washington, DC. She said that after she rejected his advances, he "s