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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 "said he had insider information on the case. I don't know if he meant it to be threatening, but I took it that way."[82]

At a time when the MeToo movement was pushing for action against men who harassed women, some media and supporters in Detroit believed Conyers had been unfairly treated.[83] He was reported as the "first sitting politician to be ousted from office in the wake of the #MeToo movement."[84]

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