Ex-MSU dean William Strampel abused power, mistreated women for decades, prosecutor says
LANSING — William Strampel, the former dean of the Michigan State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine, used his power to demean, degrade, manipulate and control women, prosecutors said in court on Thursday.
And he’d been doing it for more than three decades, they said.
"Absolute power corrupts absolutely," Assistant Attorney General Danielle Hagaman-Clark said Thursday morning during opening arguments in Strampel's jury trial.
The former dean, who was was one of convicted sex offender Larry Nassar's former bosses, is charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors.
Hagaman-Clark said witnesses will detail how, from his time in the military to his time as an MSU dean, Strampel made sexual comments and acted inappropriately toward women over whom he had control.
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