The Department of Veterans Affairs office dedicated to rooting out racism and harassment is itself a “hostile, toxic work environment with a permissive culture of rampant gossiping and innuendo,” where multiple layers of top officials participated in and covered up sexual harassment, an internal agency review concluded.
At one point, a senior manager fired a mid-level manager because both men wanted to sexually harass the same employee. When a complaint was filed, a political appointee sat on it, apparently partly for racial reasons.
The 125-page report paints a shocking portrait of the 400-person diversity office, in which employees spent much of their time filing complaints against each other instead of serving veterans. Employees engaged in “self-aggrandizing,” petty turf wars, and planned wasteful events, including one junket in which nine people travelled to dispense “diversity” training that was supposed to have been done by one person.
Deputy Assistant Secretary Harvey Johnson, the leader of the Office of Resolution Management, Diversity &amp; Inclusion (ORMDI), retired when confronted with evidence of his department&#8217;s behavior, as well as allegations that he had swept misconduct &#8220;under the rug.&#8221;
Archie Davis, the ORMDI Chief of Staff, has been moved to a different office pending discipline after the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection (OAWP) concluded that he &#8220;engaged in misconduct of a sexual nature with a subordinate employee, including while he was in her direct chain of command,&#8221; &#8220;sexted&#8217; with a different subordinate employee,&#8221; covered up allegations against colleague, and a slew of other infractions.
The findings come as the VA has made some of the most bizarre and inflammatory “diversity” moves in the Biden administration — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/veterans-affairs-rescinds-memo-banning-v-j-day-kiss-photo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including an attempted ban on the iconic photo</a> that celebrated victory over Japan in World War II, and a new policy that could tamper with medical assessments to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-wants-more-black-veterans-declared-mentally-disabled-in-the-name-of-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deny benefits to white suicidal veterans</a> in the name of racial equity.
ORMDI is tasked with harassment prevention, equal employment opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for the VA, yet “the very office tasked with enforcing” such things itself engaged in wanton harassment and bizarre racism, according to the OAWP report, which was dated January 26 and obtained by The Daily Wire.
A female employee provided OAWP with messages showing that after meeting chief of staff Davis for the first time in early 2023, he began sending her flirtatious texts and copying her on emails in which he bullied subordinates, seemingly to boast of his power and to show what could be in store for her if she did not cooperate.
Western Region Supervisor Gary Richardson was also sexually harassing the same employee. She said that he would hound her on Microsoft Teams with personal chatter as they worked, and that he told her when she was not available, he would stare at her photo &#8220;to get my fix.&#8221; When she travelled to D.C. for work, he told her he had a &#8220;pass&#8221; from his wife and pressured her to go out with him.
And on March 2, Davis recommended that Richardson be fired for it, writing that &#8220;the predatory electronic messages should be sufficient to present Gary with the option of resignation of retirement in lieu of removal.&#8221;
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<h1>&#8220;Good morning Sexy!&#8230; Ain&#8217;t just attracted to your curves and those physical attributes that cause men to holler at ya. Your bold, audacious disposition and your alpha female demeanor are equally a turn-on for me.&#8221;</h1>
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This was seemingly not because he, as Davis wrote, &#8220;breach[ed] that sacred line,&#8221; but because he was competition. Nine days later, Davis himself texted the employee: &#8220;Good morning Sexy! &#8230; Ain&#8217;t just attracted to your curves and those physical attributes that cause men to holler at ya. Your bold, audacious disposition and your alpha female demeanor are equally a turn-on for me.&#8221;
Davis subjected her to messages such as one that said, &#8220;I wanna make you lose your mind. When I&#8217;m thumping your clit with my tongue and you grab my head, I&#8217;ll keep it right there til you shiver and quiver and beg me to pound you,&#8221; according to screenshots obtained by The Daily Wire.
On another occasion, he sent her porn and texted her at 4:43am, &#8220;I hope you like it early in the morning. Often I imagine how good it will be to roll over on top of you and start the day by filling you up.&#8221;
The victim said that Davis &#8220;would always try to persuade me with money,&#8221; such as free trips to D.C., and told her &#8220;once you get on his bad side, you will feel his wrath.&#8221;
By July, when the woman was still not receptive, Davis got snippy, saying, &#8220;We&#8217;ve been talking for a year and I have been clear on my interest&#8230; My intent was to have it all with you.&#8221; Soon after, she became the subject of his chest-thumping bureaucratic missives, with him writing to her, &#8220;any further attempts to extend your official travel at this conference beyond August 10, 2023 will be viewed as further insubordination and will be dealt with as such.&#8221;
Six complaints resulted in little reform, with the victim eventually reaching out directly to VA Secretary Denis McDonough, who did not respond. &#8220;With Harvey and Archie being in a position of power&#8230; I felt like it wasn&#8217;t going to go nowhere,&#8221; she said.
Davis’ misconduct “was so wide-ranging, pervasive, and widely known” that ORMDI Deputy Assistant Secretary Johnson “either knew or should have” known about it, yet he continued to give Davis “outstanding” performance reviews, OAWP said.
When Johnson received a complaint about &#8220;erratic behavior&#8221; by Davis impacting &#8220;the safety of staff,&#8221; he did not take any documented action. It recommended that Johnson have his previous bonuses clawed back so he could not simply evade accountability by retiring with a pension.
The diversity office’s day-to-day actions seemed to have virtually no bearing on the wellness of veterans. The report said that ODMI is responsible for the &#8220;Diversity and Inclusion Program&#8221; which travels across the country to conduct &#8220;technical assistance reviews (TARs),&#8221; which VA policy says &#8220;may be composed of one or two members.&#8221; ORMDI would add employees to these junkets for trivial purposes such as taking notes or the be &#8220;extras.&#8221;
One employee said it was &#8220;fraud, waste, and abuse. You know, we had &#8212; I kid you not &#8212; maybe eight, nine people on this TAR that was [sic] sittin&#8217; around.&#8221;
Another employee alleged that even though ORMDI had 400 employees, it hired outside contractors to do actual work.
The VA diversity office was so chaotic that investigators from another agency, the US Postal Service, were called in to address their many complaints against each other. While some complaints showed severe misconduct, others evidenced bizarre, adolescent dysfunction or were petty, high-school style gossip.
Employees often gossiped about whether the purpose of their many junkets was for particular employees to have sex with each other, and filed complaints based on sniping and rumors.
Some sexual activity in the DEI office was consensual. One employee was happy that chief of staff Davis called her his &#8220;big brown sugar,&#8221; told him she wanted to &#8220;suck him dry,&#8221; and asked him about anal sex.
Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) said that VA officials explained a delay in convening an investigation in part because they thought someone could only be investigated by a person of the same race.
Secretary McDonough acknowledged receiving an email from a whistleblower about the scandal, but said he could not recall his response clearly. The employees remained on the job even after House VA Committee Chair Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) wrote to him about it because he did not read the chairman&#8217;s letter, despite congressional correspondence being part of his daily briefing.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t read the letters tab every day. And I&#8217;ve just ignored it,&#8221; McDonough said. &#8220;That is one of the things that really bothers me about it, and I saw no other way to address it than to just come clean.&#8221;
Gina Grosso, the Assistant Secretary for HRA/OSP, failed to take prompt action, explaining to OAWP that “there were so many complaints at once, and it took time to figure out who was the grieved, and it&#8217;s several things on my plate — on the plate. I don&#8217;t think I have any other great explanation, honestly.”
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Grosso, a political appointee of Joe Biden, announced her resignation the day after Congress raised the issue.
“The sheer volume of complaints arising in ORMDI should have put [Human Resources and Administration/Operations, Security, and Preparedness] leaders on notice of the dysfunctional situation in ORMDI, but HRA/OSP leadership failed to take sufficient actions,” it said, referring to the human resources department that houses the DEI office.
In a February 14 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pEafd-tYAU&amp;t=3s">congressional hearing</a>, Secretary McDonough said although a whistleblower contacted him about the issue, he didn’t remember it, and it didn’t get his attention when Bost wrote to him about it, because “I’ve just ignored” letters from Congress.
“The person who failed here is me,” McDonough told the committee. “This behavior suggests a real culture issue in ORMDI.”
The report concluded that &#8220;given the systemic deficiencies and failures documented in this report, VA must take immediate action to restore VA employees&#8217; trust in ORMDI.&#8221;
The VA did not return a request for information from The Daily Wire.

Left: Deputy Assistant Secretary Harvey Johnson, the VA’s top DEI official. Right: His chief of staff, Archie Davis (Department of Veterans Affairs). Center: A statue of the iconic V-J kiss photo that was banned by the VA for being non-inclusive (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

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Oberlin College has suspended a long-controversial professor who called for the elimination of Israel after sexual harassment allegations against him came to light.
The private Ohio liberal arts college just outside of Cleveland has put tenured professor Mohammad Jafar Mahallati on indefinite administrative leave and scrubbed him from the school&#8217;s website.
&#8220;Professor Mahallati was placed on indefinite administrative leave on November 28,&#8221; an Oberlin spokeswoman <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/woke-colleges-professor-peace-ousted-alleged-war-crimes-antisemitism-sexual-misconduct" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> to Fox News.
Mahallati <a href="https://www.oberlin.edu/mohammad-jafar-mahallati" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taught</a> religion as well as Middle East and North Africa studies and has previously called himself a “professor of peace.”
However, Mahallati is accused of supporting the Palestinian terror group Hamas, giving students credit for writing anti-Israel blogs, and telling his classes in 2016 that “Israel is a colonialist state” and “Israel is an apartheid state.”
Oberlin made the call to suspend Mahallati after decades-old allegations that he once demanded sex in exchange for good grades surfaced.
Court papers from the 1990s obtained by the Middle East Forum and given to the New York Post allege that when Mahallati was an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a graduate student 11 years younger than he accused the 43-year-old married father of giving her good grades in exchange for sex.
Mahallati allegedly invited the woman to his home, supposedly to interview her for a research assistant position, but then “made repeated sexual advances” and promised good grades for sexual favors, she claimed. The two then had sexual encounters at his office as well as at his Manhattan apartment for 15 months, she alleged.
Mahallati allegedly threatened to withhold her grade if she did not stay silent, and when she did go to Columbia’s administration, he accused her of fraudulently submitting the same paper twice, the woman claimed.
The woman, a 32-year-old Palestinian Christian, sued both Mahallati and Columbia at the time, accusing the professor of trying to damage her reputation and academic career.
Mahallati denied the claims at the time in 1997 and tried to claim diplomatic immunity even though he had not been Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations since 1989.
“We take all allegations of sexual harassment and abuse extremely seriously,” a spokeswoman for Oberlin <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/06/news/campus-anti-semite-suspended-after-sex-for-grades-claim/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post. “We would not hire a faculty member who we knew to have a history of sexual harassment of a student, colleague or staff member.”
Mahallati, 71, has also taught at Georgetown and Princeton.
In September, the Department of Education <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/federal-anti-semitism-probe-launched-into-oberlin-college-over-professor-of-peace-who-called-for-israels-elimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> a federal anti-Semitism probe into Oberlin College over Mahallati. The investigation is examining whether Oberlin violated Title VI, which protects students from discrimination based on race or national origin.
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The probe could result in Oberlin losing some of the millions in federal funding it receives every year — last year the school received $5 million in federal grants.
While Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mahallati is also accused of defending the Supreme Leader of Iran’s fatwa calling for the assassination of the novelist Salman Rushdie over Rushdie’s novel, “The Satanic Verses.”
Rushdie was <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/12/nj-man-matar-hadi-with-sympathies-toward-iran-arrested-in-stabbing-of-salman-rushdie/?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=conservnewsd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stabbed</a> in 2022 by a supporter of the Iranian regime while speaking at an event in upstate New York.
Also while Iran’s ambassador, Mahallati <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/oberlin-professor-of-peace-iranian-ambassador-destruction-of-israel-1989-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> at the United Nations in 1989 that Palestinian-controlled land’s “occupation by Zionist usurpers is a transgression against all Muslims of the world and its liberation is therefore a great religious obligation and commitment.”
Mahallati’s classes at Oberlin were canceled in the spring. Previously, students boycotted and protested the professor’s classes, <a href="https://oberlinreview.org/26171/news/continued-college-inaction-provokes-second-protest-against-mahallati/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alleging</a> that he covered up crimes against humanity in Iran in the 1980s.

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Oberlin College Suspends ‘Professor Of Peace’ Who Called For Israel’s Elimination After Sexual Harassment Allegations

Oberlin College Suspends ‘Professor Of Peace’ Who Called For Israel’s Elimination After Sex Harassment Allegations

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In a move that could pit women’s advocates and transgender activists against each other, the Education Department has opened an investigation into an alleged incident involving a trans-identifying student exposing his male genitalia to freshman girls.
The Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), which investigates schools for potential violations of the anti-sex discrimination statute Title IX, said Wednesday that it would look into the incident, which occurred in March. The investigation comes as a response to a complaint filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL).
In <a href="https://will-law.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/OCR-Opening-Investigation-SPASD66.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its response</a> to WILL’s complaint OCR says that it will investigate “Whether the [Sun Prairie Area School] District responded to a report of sexual harassment consistent with the requirements of Title IX.”
An investigation does not mean that OCR will determine the school district acted inappropriately when a student reported that a biologically male student identifying as a female entered the girls’ locker room and showered naked next to four freshman girls and exposed his male genitalia to them.
While Title IX in recent years has been used to adjudicate allegations of sexual assault and harassment, the Biden administration has signaled it would use the statute to punish schools for not adhering to the administration&#8217;s transgender ideology.
The incident occurred on March 3, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/18-year-old-male-identifying-as-female-enters-high-school-girls-locker-showers-naked-next-to-14-year-old-students-conservative-org-alleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, at Sun Prairie East High School in Wisconsin. When the four freshman girls entered the lockers, they found a senior male student, believed to be 18 years old at the time, in the room that contained the lockers and benches. The girls said the student wasn’t in the class with them, but proceeded to the shower area even though they were uncomfortable. They were aware that the student identified as transgender and had used girls’ bathrooms previously.
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The girls showered with their bathing suits on, which was common practice. Just when they started to shower, the transgender student fully undressed and entered the shower next to one of the girls. The student was initially facing the wall but then turned toward the four girls, exposing his male genitalia to all four freshmen.
The girls didn’t know what to do and didn’t immediately report the incident, but after one girl told another student what happened, that student said they should report it. Three days after the incident in the shower, the uninvolved student reported it to student services. The incident should have been reported under Title IX, but Associate Principal Heidi Walter didn’t report the incident to the Title IX coordinator, and instead asked for the names of the students involved, according to WILL.
On March 10, the student who reported the incident had gained permission to provide the students’ names and was ready to do so, but Walter said that the girls could approach her if they wanted. She later admitted, according to WILL, that she should have “dug deeper” into the issue.
The four girls should have been provided supportive measures under Title IX, but instead, the school focused on the transgender student, WILL said. EHS’ principal did, however, apologize to a parent in an email by saying the incident “should not have happened” and vowing to “continue to work to ensure no one has a similar experience,” though she didn’t outline any steps the school would take.
WILL said that the Sun Prairie Area School District dismissed the rights and concerns of the freshmen girls while assuring parents that the issue had been resolved. The district also pointed to its “Restroom and Locker Room Accessibility Guidance,” which may not have even been in effect. The guidance, according to WILL, suggests that if a transgender student “makes any request regarding the use of locker rooms,” the school will evaluate the request. The policy says nothing about students who don’t make requests, if permission is required, or who makes the determination on the student’s request.
The school district’s policy says that a “student who is transgender, nonbinary, or gender expansive will be permitted to access the men’s/women’s segregated restrooms in accordance with the student’s gender identity that the student regularly asserts at school and in other social environments.”
It further states that any “Student who has a need or desire for increased privacy, regardless of the underlying reason, may be provided with access to a single-access restroom where such a facility is reasonably available, but no student shall be required to use such a restroom because of the student’s transgender, nonbinary, or gender expansive status.”
The school district has also released a statement saying it stands by “LGBTQIA+ students and staff,” taking “seriously our responsibility to provide safe, nondiscriminatory, and inclusive environments for people of all orientations and identities as they reflect our diverse community around us.”
The statement also says that “all children will be safe and loved in our schools,” which WILL argued has not been upheld in this case.

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Students at UC Berkeley stormed the football game on Saturday between USC and Cal Berkeley and are threatening a hunger strike if a female professor is not reinstated after being suspended amid allegations of sexual harassment and stalking.
The students are angered that professor Ivonne del Valle, the only first-generation Mexican female professor at Berkeley, was suspended for allegedly harassing, stalking, and then retaliating against UC Davis professor Joshua Clover, The Post Millennial <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/uc-berkeley-students-storm-field-during-football-game-to-protest-firing-of-professor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Del Valle allegedly began stalking and harassing Clover in 2018 and continued her campaign against him until 2022, claiming without evidence that he had hacked her phone and computer, according to KQED.
“Professor del Valle isn’t just any faculty member, she’s the top expert in colonial studies,” Berkeley sophomore Emily Chamale said during a protest last month against del Valle’s suspension, <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11965822/uc-berkeley-students-threaten-hunger-strike-to-reinstate-professor-suspended-for-stalking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KQED reported</a>. “The question that haunts me is: If someone as respected as her is going through such things at Berkeley, what might the future be for the rest of us?”
Christián González Reyes, a Ph.D. student, was quoted as saying: “We want Ivonne back. We’re not going to be silent anymore.”
What led to del Valle’s suspension was a series of investigations by Berkeley and del Valle’s own admission that she had keyed Clover’s car, scrawled messages outside his apartment, called his friends and mother, and called his office phone line at least 10 times within an hour and a half. Del Valle claimed her actions were due to being hacked, but the evidence she provided to KQED did not support her claims and did not point to Clover as a culprit.
“I did write outside his door, ‘Here lives a pervert.’ I did that. And again, I’m not proud,” del Valle told the outlet. “If I had the opportunity to do things differently, I would do them differently.”
She also acknowledged going to Clover’s mother’s home, but claimed the message she left was not a threat. She also denied that her behavior was sexual harassment. Del Valle also admitted to posting an image of Clover’s partner online.
UC Berkeley spokesperson Janet Gilmore declined to comment on the specifics of the case to KQED.
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Three investigations were conducted into del Valle’s behavior between 2019 and 2022, but the first complaint came in May 2018, after del Valle began sending Clover Twitter messages telling him that someone was bothering her and calling her names. Del Valle had met Clover after he spoke at Berkeley.
The first investigation found that del Valle, who has taught at Berkeley since 2009 and has tenure, had violated the university’s policies against stalking and sexual harassment.
“The evidence additionally demonstrates that Respondent monitored, followed, observed, and threatened Complainant, both electronically and in person, and interfered with his property,” the report said, according to KQED.
Del Valle claimed her actions against Clover were an attempt to defend herself after university officials and police didn’t take her concerns about hacking seriously. She provided the news outlet with documentation regarding an analysis of her laptop and cellphone. Her cellphone had been compromised, but the computer was not hacked, according to the analysis. The analysis does not point to Clover, or anyone else, hacking her devices.
Berkeley found “insufficient evidence” to support claims that Clover “engaged in any hacking of Respondent’s electronic devices and is harassing or stalking her online.”
Del Valle also claimed that after she would sent messages to friends or family on her phone or computer, Clover would tweet about similar topics. The evidence she provided to the news outlet, however, did not show any sort of eavesdropping.
Del Valle sent KQED the 261 pages of documentation she sent to Berkeley regarding the alleged hacking. A Berkeley investigator wrote that substantiating her claims were outside their scope but that it did not negate the fact that del Valle’s conduct “would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or suffer substantial emotional distress.”
At one point in the report, del Valle admitted to knocking on Clover’s apartment door and saying she “was not leaving until he opened the door and explained what he was doing by hacking her.” She then slid a note under his door that said: “If you make me leave, it’ll be worse.”
Del Valle later left Clover a voicemail claiming: “I can do whatever the f*** I want piece of s***” and “You need to still call me and apologize or you’ll see what I’m going to do.”
Del Valle would go on to key Clover’s car and vandalize his apartment, leading to Clover moving in large part due to a “persistent sense of and considerable lack of safety,” according to a report.
In a 2020 settlement agreement, del Valle was required not to contact Clover or his friends, family, or students. One year later, she violated that no-contact order by leaving messages near Clover’s mother’s home, as well as other violations, according to an investigation. This was determined in Berkeley’s second investigation into her contact, which resulted in a nine-month suspension.
In 2022, Berkeley conducted a third investigation which found that del Valle violated the no-contact order. This time, she asked police for help using social media, and posted a photo of Clover’s partner online.
Del Valle told KQED that she has been living out of suitcases since her suspension, and that she could lose her tenure and be fired if she doesn’t accept an 18-month suspension Berkeley has offered.
“My life is completely destroyed,” del Valle said. “I don’t want UC Berkeley to think that they can do this to a minority woman in order to protect a white, senior professor. It’s not acceptable.”
For his part, Clover in 2014 tweeted that he was thankful that all living police officers “would one day be dead” and has advocated for killing cops, suggesting shooting them in the back.
While UC Berkeley students are currently protesting to stop a professor from being punished for sexual harassment and stalking, students in the recent past have advocated for harsher punishments for just such accusations.
In 2016, students <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/11/uc-berkeley-sexual-harassment-scandal-protests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">protested</a> in order to get assistant professor Blake Wentworth punished after the university found him responsible for making offensive sexual remarks toward two graduate students, Kathleen Gutierrez and Erin Bennett. In that instance, students protested the school’s lack of action, even holding a press conference. At the time, Wentworth was the latest in a line of male Berkeley employees to be accused of sexual offenses that were not punished adequately, according to students.

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UC Berkeley Students Protest Female Professor’s Suspension Over Sexual Harassment, Stalking Claims — Which She Admitted To

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Michigan State head football coach Mel Tucker’s defense attorneys have released text messages from his accuser allegedly showing she was looking to get money from the wealthy coach.
Tucker was fired in September over sexual harassment allegations made by activist Brenda Tracy, who gets paid to speak to schools about sexual violence. She accused Tucker of making sexual comments about her and masturbating while the two were on a phone call together.
Tucker has maintained his innocence, and hundreds of newly released text messages between her and a friend cast doubt on the validity of her claims.
In alleged messages to a friend, Tracy seemed focused on Tucker’s money, writing that he “signed his contract. I cant [sic] even wrap my brain around 95 million. Sheesh … Can you imagine around 700k going into your bank account every month. Every month…&#8221;
&#8220;We’re gonna make it happen … I’m gonna ask him to finance the doc part of [marketing materials that Tracy wanted] … He’ll do it,” she wrote, according to a copy of the defense’s filing <a href="https://www.outkick.com/mel-tucker-accuser-was-allegedly-involved-in-multiple-relationships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obtained</a> by OutKick.
About a week before she filed her complaint with MSU’s Title IX office – the office that investigates allegations of campus sexual assault – Tracy admitted to her friend that “she was down to $5,” according to the legal filing. Once she filed her complaint, Tracy, referring to herself as a victim, allegedly wrote her friend “imagine the victim is taking on a $95M coach.”
After telling her friend that she owed money to the IRS and that she “was supposed to be paying down 2018 taxes and not staying caught up on the other years,” Tracy said that “[h]aving the IRS after me in a way that is known publicly surely won’t help my lawsuit,” according to the documents obtained by OutKick.
In other messages, though she was in a tough financial place, Tracy told her friend that her “priority is face lift and filming myself so we can make this [money],” according to the court documents.
The defense also says it has a witness who, under oath, explained that Tracy and Tucker “were in some sort of relationship when the conversation took place” and that “the phone sex was consensual.” Tracy herself has not given a statement under oath.
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This witness also told the defense that Tracy attempted to cover-up her messages with her friend discussing Tucker’s money. This witness said that as her friend was dying in a hospital – and after – Tracy tried to get access to the woman’s home and asked her family for access to the woman’s phone and computers.
Though the text messages look damning for Tracy, Tucker has reportedly not been completely honest throughout the investigation. He reportedly told investigators that he was at his Michigan home when the phone call took place, which should have made it outside of MSU’s jurisdiction. But Tucker was reportedly in Florida for a school-sponsored event, according to the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/09/22/michigan-state-mel-tucker-false-claims-sexual-harassment/70922038007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from USA Today. Witnesses reportedly discredited Tucker’s claim about where and when the phone call took place.

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If you mirror the priorities of the Left, then you can do whatever you want. As long as you’re not caught on camera, you’re fine. If you look at the disparate consequences for public figures ranging from people like Russell Brand to people like Howard Stern, the public consequences are quite disparate.
Russell Brand has been accused by four separate women of actions ranging from sexual assault to rape to sexual harassment. Whether the allegations are true or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know is that at this moment, they’re just allegations. There has been no actual criminal indictment brought against him. He’s certainly not been convicted of anything. But YouTube has suspended Brand from making any money on its platform only days after that report broke from Channel 4 and BBC, outlets that used to pay Brand while he was in the midst of his most flagrantly vile behavior.
So if there are serious allegations made against you of any sort, all of your videos immediately get demonetized. (Which is going to be very bad news for a significant number of actors and half the rappers on the block.) That’s a horrible standard. You’ve now created a massive incentive structure for people to make allegations against people, true or false, in order to destroy their careers.
I’m not saying the women who have made allegations about Brand are lying. I don’t know whether they are or not. I do know, at this point, I have no idea how YouTube could possibly uphold such a standard. Does it have something to do with the fact that Brand is a heterodox political thinker, somebody who says things YouTube doesn’t like very much?
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Then there’s Howard Stern. Stern has been making headlines the last couple of days by pushing very loudly to the Left. He spent virtually my entire life — from the time I was a teenager — being an absolute deviant and a degraded person beyond all measure. The kinds of behavior that Stern has regularly engaged in publicly throughout his career are nothing short of disgusting. They are disreputable. They are vile toward women; he had women in his studio sit on vibrators so he could record their reactions and blast them out to millions of people in his audience.
But now, Stern is apparently one of our moral exemplars. Over the last couple of days, he ripped into Lauren Boebert, who engaged in what I think is disgusting behavior; he referred to her in vile ways.
How is Howard Stern able to get away with all this? He gets away with it because he mirrors the political priorities of the Left. You be as gross as you want to be so long as you mirror the political priorities of the Left. Stern has discovered the magic elixir that wipes away all of your past and present sins, and that is to be far enough to the Left. He’s saying all the nostrums everybody on the Left really wants to hear, and that means it’s fine for him to do all this.
So why is this important?
Because when you have a class of people who are immunized by their association with certain Left-wing causes, it incentivizes bad behavior by those people. It also creates a massive double standard: If you are heterodox, you can expect to be targeted, but if you are orthodox in your practice of leftism, you can expect you’re going to be given an enormous amount of breathing room.
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Michigan State University officials on Monday delivered a notice of termination to the school&#8217;s head football coach Mel Tucker after a prominent rape survivor and activist recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michigan-state-suspends-head-coach-after-rape-survivor-alleges-he-sexually-harrassed-her-during-phone-call-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> him of sexual harassment during a phone call.
Tucker, 51, who signed a $95 million decade-long contract extension less than two years ago, made headlines last week after allegations against him became public in a USA Today report. In that report, Brenda Tracy — a rape survivor who educates athletes about sexual violence — said the football coach sexually harassed her during a phone call on April 28, 2022.
After the report was published, Michigan State officials suspended Tucker without pay on September 10, pending the results of a Title IX investigation over allegations of sexual misconduct.
Michigan State athletic director Alan Haller released a <a href="https://twitter.com/chrissolari/status/1703858552924774730" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> Monday afternoon announcing the university&#8217;s intent to terminate his contract.
&#8220;I, with the support of administration and board, have provided Mel Tucker with written notice of intent to terminate his contract for cause. This notification process is required as part of his existing contract,&#8221; Haller said in a university statement. &#8220;The notice provides Tucker with seven calendar days to respond and present reasons to me and the interim president as to why he should not be terminated for cause.
&#8220;This action does not conclude the ongoing Office for Civil Rights case; that rigorous process will continue.&#8221;
According to his contract, Michigan State may fire Tucker for cause if he &#8220;engages in any conduct which constitutes moral turpitude or which, in the University&#8217;s sole judgment, would tend to bring public disrespect, contempt or ridicule upon the university.&#8221;
Haller&#8217;s four-page letter sent to Tucker&#8217;s representatives on Monday <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/college/michigan-state-university/2023/09/18/msu-fires-mel-tucker/70889396007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> detailed the reasons behind the termination, saying, in part, &#8220;The university has become aware of various facts that have led to the unfortunate decision to terminate your employment for cause. At this point, the university has amassed a body of undisputed evidence of misconduct that warrants termination for cause.&#8221;
Tucker reportedly invited Tracy to the campus to speak three different times. On two occasions, Tracy spoke to the players and staff about sexual violence in sports culture and once to be recognized &#8220;as an honorary captain at the team&#8217;s spring football game,&#8221; USA Today reported.
However, according to a complaint filed with the university&#8217;s Title IX office in December, Tracy reportedly &#8220;sat frozen for several minutes while Tucker made sexual comments about her and masturbated.&#8221;
“The idea that someone could know me and say they understand my trauma but then re-inflict that trauma on me is so disgusting to me, it’s hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,” Tracy told USA TODAY. “It’s like he sought me out just to betray me.”
According to the report, the school hired an outside Title IX attorney to investigate Tracy&#8217;s complaint, which was concluded in July.
Tucker, who is married and has two children, acknowledged the accusations made against him during the phone call but claimed they had consensual &#8220;phone sex&#8221; and the allegations were &#8220;completely false.&#8221;
&#8220;Ms. Tracy&#8217;s distortion of our mutually consensual and intimate relationship into allegations of sexual exploitation has really affected me,&#8221; Tucker wrote in a March 22 letter to the investigator, USA Today reported. &#8220;I am not proud of my judgment and I am having difficulty forgiving myself for getting into this situation, but I did not engage in misconduct by any definition.&#8221;
Tucker&#8217;s termination will reportedly cost the football coach more than $80 million.
Tucker is reportedly scheduled to appear in a formal hearing beginning on October 5.

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Michigan State Officials Plan To Fire Head Football Coach Mel Tucker Over Sexual Harassment Allegations

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School officials suspended Michigan State University head football coach Mel Tucker without pay on Sunday after a prominent rape survivor and activist accused him of sexual harassment during a phone call.
According to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mel-tucker-michigan-state-brenda-tracy-195fc122887dcf102a5cd8250385f202" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>, Michigan State President Teresa K. Woodruff and athletic director Alan Haller announced the suspension pending the outcome of an MSU Title IX investigation into the allegations against the Spartans head coach.
Allegations against Tucker became public in a <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/09/10/michigan-state-football-coach-sexual-harassment-claim/70679703007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">USA Today report</a> in which Brenda Tracy, a rape survivor who educates athletes about sexual violence, said the football coach sexually harassed her during a phone call on April 28, 2022.
Tucker reportedly invited Tracy to the campus to speak three different times. On two occasions, Tracy spoke to the players and staff about sexual violence in sports culture and once to be recognized &#8220;as an honorary captain at the team&#8217;s spring football game,&#8221; the outlet wrote.
However, according to a complaint filed with the university&#8217;s Title IX office in December, Tracy reportedly &#8220;sat frozen for several minutes while Tucker made sexual comments about her and masturbated.&#8221;
&#8220;The idea that someone could know me and say they understand my trauma but then re-inflict that trauma on me is so disgusting to me, it&#8217;s hard for me to even wrap my mind around it,&#8221; she told USA TODAY. &#8220;It&#8217;s like he sought me out just to betray me.&#8221;
According to the report, the school hired an outside Title IX attorney to investigate Tracy&#8217;s complaint, which was concluded in July.
CBS reported Tracy three college football players and a recruit gang raped Tracy in 1998. She became a prominent activist against sexual violence in sports in 2014, and has spread the message of  &#8220;<a href="https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/for-holding-college-football-accountable-brenda-tracy-is-my-person-of-the-year/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Violence against women must stop</a>&#8221; across college sports. 
Tucker, who is married and has two children, acknowledged the accusations made against him during the phone call but claimed they had consensual &#8220;phone sex.&#8221;
&#8220;Ms. Tracy&#8217;s distortion of our mutually consensual and intimate relationship into allegations of sexual exploitation has really affected me,&#8221; Tucker wrote in a March 22 letter to the investigator, USA Today reported. &#8220;I am not proud of my judgment and I am having difficulty forgiving myself for getting into this situation, but I did not engage in misconduct by any definition.&#8221;
According to The Associated Press, Tucker&#8217;s $ 95 million, 10-year contract with MSU is only in its third year. If university officials fire Tucker, he would reportedly lose out on the remainder of his deal.
According to his contract, Michigan State may fire Tucker for cause if he &#8220;engages in any conduct which constitutes moral turpitude or which, in the University&#8217;s sole judgement, would tend to bring public disrespect, contempt or ridicule upon the university.&#8221;
MSU secondary coach Harlon Barnett will serve in Tucker&#8217;s place as interim head coach, with Michigan State&#8217;s former head coach Mark Dantonio as an associate head coach.
Tucker is reportedly scheduled to appear in a formal hearing beginning on October 5.

Michigan State Suspends Head Coach After Rape Survivor Alleges He Sexually Harrassed Her During Phone Call: Report

Michigan State Suspends Spartans Head Coach Mel Tucker After Rape Survivor Alleges He Sexually Harrassed Her During Phone Call: Report

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She Wanted More Sex But He Refused, So She Accused Him Of Sexual Assault. A Jury Awarded Him $4 Million.

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A far-left climate activist was forced to resign in disgrace this week from an environmental organization that she helped found after a jury awarded a former employee hundreds of thousands of dollars because the organization did not sufficiently investigate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sexual-harassment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sexual harassment</a> claims.
Native American environmentalist Winona LaDuke resigned as executive director of Honor the Earth, an organization that she co-founded with the Indigo Girls — whose band members, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, also support far-left causes.
LaDuke&#8217;s exit from the organization comes after a Minnesota jury awarded Margaret Campbell $750,000 this week &#8220;for sexual harassment, mental suffering and retaliation, after Campbell reported the allegations to LaDuke and other organization leaders&#8221; and she was not protected, the Minnesota Reformer <a href="https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/04/04/honor-the-earth-hit-with-750k-civil-court-judgment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“She reported the harassment to her boss, but rather than protect her the organization protected her harasser at her expense,” said Campbell’s attorney, Christy Hall of Gender Justice. “But Margaret did not back down. Her lawsuit, and the jury’s findings, are an important reminder of the responsibility every employer has to end workplace harassment and abuse.”
LaDuke <a href="https://www.facebook.com/winona.laduke.5/posts/pfbid023fmafpaRDnhNdfFFnWyMECfHdGaCWw1A7nfvNDMJdPmNCnTH81WnG22DiwBiPk5pl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Facebook post that she was responsible for failing to protect Campbell from sexual harassment before claiming that the organization was the victim of &#8220;colonial carceral court systems.&#8221;
&#8220;The court system is a punitive, white, carceral system that targets Native Peoples,&#8221; LaDuke claimed. &#8220;In such a forum, it was unsurprising that the result would be a staggering and disproportionate fine against Honor the Earth.&#8221;
Despite the the jury&#8217;s ruling, the Indigo Girls praised LaDuke in a statement announcing that she would no longer lead the organization.
&#8220;Working under her mentorship these past 30 years has been the privilege of a lifetime, and we will continue to learn from Winona as she does her life’s work,&#8221; they <a href="https://www.facebook.com/winona.laduke.5/posts/pfbid023fmafpaRDnhNdfFFnWyMECfHdGaCWw1A7nfvNDMJdPmNCnTH81WnG22DiwBiPk5pl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> on Facebook. &#8220;We will always be grateful to Winona LaDuke for her tireless work, her wisdom, her brilliance and her humanity.&#8221;
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The story has garnered significant national attention, leading notable figures, like Donald Trump Jr., to weigh in on the matter.
&#8220;Meanwhile, we&#8217;ve got another wacko far-Left maniac (@WinonaLaduke) having to resign for letting sexual harassment run rampant at @HonorTheEarth, which I guess makes them kind of like the new @ProjectLincoln (aka Predator Project),&#8221; Trump Jr. tweeted on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, we&#39;ve got another wacko far-Left maniac (<a href="https://twitter.com/WinonaLaduke?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WinonaLaduke</a>) having to resign for letting sexual harassment run rampant at <a href="https://twitter.com/HonorTheEarth?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HonorTheEarth</a>, which I guess makes them kind of like the new <a href="https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ProjectLincoln</a> (aka Predator Project) <a href="https://t.co/CAmQQYTXZB">https://t.co/CAmQQYTXZB</a>
&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1643736224748675074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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A former Trump White House official who dealt with tribal issues told The Daily Wire that these types of activists are some of the biggest hypocrites they&#8217;ve ever seen.
“These are people that spend all their time telling other people how to live: what their values should be, where they should be allowed to utilize natural resources, deciding who’s ‘good’ and who’s ‘bad,’” the official said. &#8220;Then come to find out, they’re letting this poor girl get sexually harassed and not doing anything about it. Good luck maintaining the moral high ground.”
Another former Trump White House official who also dealt with tribal issues told The Daily Wire, “The tribal chiefs were great, always very positive and advocating for their constituents.&#8221;
&#8220;They thought this Winona Duke lady was a fraud, a bad person,&#8221; the official said. &#8220;Sure enough, they’re being proven right.”

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Far-Left Climate Activist Resigns In Disgrace Over Sexual Misconduct Accusations at Indigo Girls-Backed Org: Report

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Michael Irvin and his attorney held a press conference on Tuesday where they released security camera footage from inside a Marriott hotel in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/arizona" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arizona</a> where a female employee claimed that Irvin acted inappropriately toward her by making crude remarks and touching her in an unwanted manner.
Irvin and his attorney said that they filed to have their $100 million lawsuit pulled from a Texas federal court and have it filed in Arizona.
The accusations from the alleged February 5 incident at the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown led to Irvin having his scheduled appearances on NFL Network and ESPN canceled during Super Bowl week.
The woman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marriott-spills-details-of-harassment-accusation-leveled-at-michael-irvin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that Irvin had appeared to be drunk and was attempting to flirt with her, asking for her name and telling her his before asking whether she had ever heard of him. She said that she had not.
“Irvin also reached out and touched the Victim’s arm during this conversation without her consent, causing her to step back, becoming visibly uncomfortable,” Marriott attorney Nathan Chapman wrote. “Irvin then asked the Victim whether she knew anything about having a ‘big Black man inside of [her].’ Taken aback by Irvin’s comments, the Victim responded that his comments were inappropriate, and she did not wish to discuss it further.”
“Irvin then attempted to grab the Victim’s hand again and said he was ‘sorry if he brought up bad memories’ for her. The Victim pulled her hand away and tried to back away from Irvin as he continued to move towards her,” the filing continued.
It was at that point that two of the woman’s coworkers reportedly intervened, seeing that she appeared to be uncomfortable. Irvin allegedly joked that “security” had caught on to him when he saw them approaching, and reached out to shake the woman’s hand. When she returned the handshake, Irvin allegedly promised to “find her” again later on that week if she was working.
Irvin completely rejected the woman&#8217;s claims that he asked her about having a “big Black man inside of [her].”
“I don’t speak like that,” Irvin <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2023/03/14/michael-irvin-refiles-lawsuit-vs-marriott-in-arizona-will-release-surveillance-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday. “I’ve never spoken like that. I totally deny saying that. I totally deny saying that.”
Regarding the woman&#8217;s comment that he was going to &#8220;find her&#8221; later in the week, Irvin said, “Like I’m going to hunt her down, kidnap somebody, kill somebody?”
“Come on. Here’s the truth,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We used to say when we played football, ‘The eye in the sky don’t tell no lies.’ It’s just the truth. We talk and tell lies. But the eye in the sky don’t tell no lies.”
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Michael Irvin told me “we used to say in football…the eye in the sky don’t tell no lie.” The Cowboys Hall of Famer says this video proves he didn’t sexually assault the woman. Irvin’s legal team says his interaction with the woman backs up his innocence. <a href="https://twitter.com/FOX4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FOX4</a> <a href="https://t.co/RKu73DOKxR">pic.twitter.com/RKu73DOKxR</a>
&mdash; Steven Dial (@StevenDialFox4) <a href="https://twitter.com/StevenDialFox4/status/1635682908772900864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Irvin&#8217;s attorney, Levi McCathern, said that the woman&#8217;s accusations were &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; and that Irvin was a victim of &#8220;cancel culture.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no doubt, this woman was not offended,&#8221; McCathern said. &#8220;This is not a sexual assault, sexual misconduct, or sexual harassment. This tape is very, very clear.&#8221;

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Marriott has revealed the details of an accusation of sexual harassment — made by a hotel employee against former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/michael-irvin-says-hes-baffled-after-nfl-network-announces-hes-been-pulled-from-super-bowl-coverage-over-misconduct-allegation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Irvin</a> — in a document that was filed by the hotel chain in federal court.
According to a <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/cowboys/2023/03/10/marriott-releases-details-of-womans-accusation-against-michael-irvin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Friday by the Dallas Morning News, the document gives a full account of the woman&#8217;s accusations against Irvin — which include allegedly drunken and &#8220;aggressive&#8221; behavior and a lewd comment that she claims he made before promising to come back and find her later.
The incident allegedly occurred in the lobby of the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown on February 5, and the woman said that she was simply walking through the lobby when Irvin &#8220;flagged her down.&#8221;
During the conversation that followed, she claimed that Irvin had appeared to be drunk and was attempting to flirt with her, asking for her name and telling her his before asking whether she had ever heard of him. She said that she had not.
&#8220;Irvin also reached out and touched the Victim’s arm during this conversation without her consent, causing her to step back, becoming visibly uncomfortable,&#8221; Marriott attorney Nathan Chapman wrote. &#8220;Irvin then asked the Victim whether she knew anything about having a &#8216;big Black man inside of [her].&#8217; Taken aback by Irvin’s comments, the Victim responded that his comments were inappropriate, and she did not wish to discuss it further.&#8221;
&#8220;Irvin then attempted to grab the Victim’s hand again and said he was &#8216;sorry if he brought up bad memories&#8217; for her. The Victim pulled her hand away and tried to back away from Irvin as he continued to move towards her,&#8221; the filing continued.
It was at that point that two of the woman&#8217;s coworkers reportedly intervened, seeing that she appeared to be uncomfortable. Irvin allegedly joked that &#8220;security&#8221; had caught on to him when he saw them approaching, and reached out to shake the woman&#8217;s hand.
When she returned the handshake, Irvin allegedly promised to &#8220;find her&#8221; again later on that week if she was working.
Irvin has responded to the allegations through his attorney, Levi McCathern:
&#8220;Total hogwash. Marriott’s recently-created account goes against all the eyewitnesses and Michael’s own testimony as well as common sense. We will release the video next week. There is no sexual assault. The fact Marriott is taking the position that it is is an insult to all of the true female victims out there. I was shocked by Marriott’s prior handling of this situation. I am now disgusted and appalled. I wish trial was tomorrow, so Michael could clear his name and get the compensation he deserves for Marriott’s reckless disregard for the truth.&#8221;
Irvin has filed a lawsuit against Marriott, seeking $100 million in damages. Following the initial accusation, the former player-turned-commentator was removed from Super Bowl coverage on the NFL Network and ESPN.

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