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Inside the Sexual Harassment Process of Congress, With John Conyers

John Cronin

U. S. Representative John Conyers, 88, a Democrat from Michigan, has been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women who formerly worked on his staff. BuzzFeed has a story about a particular case with documents showing the process Congress uses to secretly settle such cases using public funds, with the following statement from a spokesman for the Office of Compliance, which handles the process:  "Pursuant to the Congressional Accountability Act, the OOC cannot comment on whether matters have or have not been filed with the office."

Baker Says Top State Police Brass Left Posts Amid ‘TrooperGate’ Fallout “On Their Own”
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Baker Says Top State Police Brass Left Posts Amid ‘TrooperGate’ Fallout “On Their Own”

Evan Lips

BOSTON — Governor Charlie Baker emphatically denied on Monday that his administration played any role in the recent departures of the State Police's top two officials amid the filing of twin federal lawsuits alleging they played a role in scrubbing away explosive details appearing in the arrest report of a Worcester County judge's daughter.

During Boston Public Radio's "Ask the Governor" segment, Baker told WGBH hosts Jim Braude and Margery Eagan that outgoing State Police Superintendent Colonel Richard McKeon and his second-in-command, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Hughes, said the two "made that decision on their own."

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