New John Conyers accuser: He showed up to a meeting in his underwear

[PoliticAverse]

WASHINGTON — A lawyer who formerly worked for U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, and later ran an ethics watchdog group in the nation’s capital confirmed for the Free Press on Thursday that Conyers verbally abused her, criticized her appearance and once showed up to a meeting in his underwear.

Melanie Sloan, a well-known Washington lawyer who for three years in the 1990s worked as Democratic counsel on the House Judiciary Committee, where Conyers remains the ranking Democrat, told the Free Press that Conyers constantly berated her, screaming at her and firing her and then rehiring her several times.

She said he criticized her for not wearing stockings on at least one occasion. On another, she said he ordered her backstage from a committee field hearing on crime she had organized in New York City to babysit one of his children. Sloan made clear that she did not feel she had ever been sexually harassed, but that she felt “mistreated by this guy.”

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[nycbos]

1. People here should not defend him.

He payed a settlement with tax payer funds.

[Irish_Dem]

3. I agree totally. nt

[Horse with no Name]

2. I wonder if this has more to do with dementia than sexual harrassment

luckily Nancy was able to intercede on Ronnie's behalf so it wouldn't be the first time.

[Princess Turandot]

4. I wondered about that too....

since he's in his late 80's. Or perhaps the result of a 'mini-stroke' (TIA). And she explicitly said that he 'wasn’t doing it to hit on' her.

“He was just walking around in his office, not dressed,” she said. “He wasn’t doing it to hit on me. It was more like he could do what he wanted. I was quite shocked by it and left quickly.”

But it seems that this happened ~20 years ago, when this woman (per the article) 'for three years in the 1990s worked as Democratic counsel on the House Judiciary Committee'. That's a long time to have been affected by dementia w/o his being far worse for it now.

[Horse with no Name]

5. Injury to the subthalamic nucleus of the brain can increase risky behavior

this can be caused surgically, by stroke or infarction.

It isn't always age-related.

[blueinredohio]

6. I would think if he showed up for a meeting in his underwear wouldn't somone

else complain about this also and if she was fired and 're-hired several times that would be documented so that would be proof if it really happened