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College student accuses former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder of sexual harassment
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College student accuses former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder of sexual harassment
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College student accuses former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder of sexual harassment
By Jenna Portnoy
Reporter covering Virginia, Maryland and D.C. congressional delegations
March 28 at 11:00 AM
A student who worked with L. Douglas Wilder at the Virginia Commonwealth University school named for the former governor reported to the university and police that Wilder sexually harassed her by kissing her without consent.
The woman, Sydney Black, 22, said Wilder, 88, also suggested she could live at his house and offered to take her on foreign trips and pay for her law school in 2017, while she still worked as an office assistant at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.
VCU officials cited privacy concerns and declined to answer a series of detailed questions.
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Jenna Portnoy covers Virginia, Maryland and D.C. politics for The Washington Post. She previously worked for the Newark Star-Ledger and the Allentown Morning Call, and has been a newspaper reporter since 2001. Follow https://twitter.com/jennaportnoy
College student accuses former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder of sexual harassment
By Jenna Portnoy
Reporter covering Virginia, Maryland and D.C. congressional delegations
March 28 at 11:00 AM
A student who worked with L. Douglas Wilder at the Virginia Commonwealth University school named for the former governor reported to the university and police that Wilder sexually harassed her by kissing her without consent.
The woman, Sydney Black, 22, said Wilder, 88, also suggested she could live at his house and offered to take her on foreign trips and pay for her law school in 2017, while she still worked as an office assistant at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs.
VCU officials cited privacy concerns and declined to answer a series of detailed questions.
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Jenna Portnoy covers Virginia, Maryland and D.C. politics for The Washington Post. She previously worked for the Newark Star-Ledger and the Allentown Morning Call, and has been a newspaper reporter since 2001. Follow https://twitter.com/jennaportnoy
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VCU student accuses former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder of sexual harassment
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