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Lawyer With Ties to Jim Renacci Releases Unnamed Sherrod Brown Accuser’s Statement
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| Last Edited | Poll Vaulter Oct 19, 2018 12:48pm |
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| News Date | Friday, October 19, 2018 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Lawyer Laura Mills released a statement Thursday through Ohio Republican Senate candidate Jim Renacci’s campaign providing more details on a sexual misconduct allegation against Sen. Sherrod Brown stemming from an incident in the late 1980s.
The Ohio Democrat has previously called Renacci’s unsubstantiated claims of improper sexual conduct by him “desperate.”
But Mills’ statement Thursday, first reported by Cleveland.com, marks the first time Renacci has provided more than just hearsay knowledge of a claim against Brown.
Mills is a former business partner of Renacci and a donor to his past political campaigns.
She describes her client as a woman who met Brown “in the course of her work” and found herself one time alone with him, “but not on a date,” Mills’ statement reads.
The alleged incident occurred in the late 1980s, between Brown’s divorce in 1987 from his first wife and his marriage to his current wife.
At their meeting, Brown allegedly made “an unexpected, uninvited, unwanted, and sudden advance” toward the woman, “roughly pushing her up against a wall,” Mills said.
The woman “told a friend in confidence about her unwanted and unexpected experience in the late 80’s,” Mills said.
“This was months ago, shortly after the MeToo movement began. The reason she told her friend was to explain why she believed many of the women, as something unwanted had happened to her with a prominent politician. She had no intention of coming forward and did not know that the friend would later contact Jim Renacci with it.” |
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