Speaking of sleaze…

Doesn’t a whole heck of a lot of this sound just like what is going on in Trump’s DC?

DIsgusting. The freaking University is already in a bad way and this still goes on?

Has a large state university ever been shut down before? I know sports programs get things like a multiple year death penalty, but this is at the top of the university, not the athletic department alone.

ESPN - Larry Nassar victim accuses MSU interim president of offering secret payoff

A sexual assault victim of former sports doctor Larry Nassar confronted Michigan State officials Friday, alleging the school’s interim president offered a payoff to settle her lawsuit and pressured her to do so without her attorney present.

Kaylee Lorincz, who has said Nassar sexually assaulted her when she sought treatment for back pain, said interim president John Engler and his attorney offered her $250,000 when the teen and her mother were at the school a few weeks ago to sign up to speak at Friday’s board of trustees meeting.

According to Lorincz, Engler said to her, “Right now, if I wrote you a check for $250,000, would you take it?”

Lorincz said Engler also claimed that another Nassar victim had given him an amount she would consider to settle with the university. Lorincz said she felt “bullied” by the encounter.

She spoke during a contentious board meeting, where Engler expressed regret for the university’s response to another woman’s federal lawsuit over the school’s handling of rape allegations involving basketball players.

Engler didn’t immediately respond to Lorincz’s comments. His spokeswoman, Emily Gerkin Guerrant, said she was in the room during the conversation and does not remember Engler offering a dollar figure.

“My interpretation of the discussion was not that he was saying, ‘I’m offering you $250,000,’” she said. “It was a discussion about the civil litigation and how it was going on.”

Michigan State special counsel to the president Carol Viventi was also in attendance at that meeting, according to Lorincz.

Lorincz addressed Engler in a room brimming with protesters, parents and sexual assault victims of Nassar, who is serving decades in prison for molesting women and girls and possessing child pornography. Lorincz was among roughly 250 women who gave statements earlier this year during Nassar’s sentencing hearings in two Michigan courtrooms.

Engler became interim president when Lou Anna Simon resigned in January hours after Nassar was sentenced to decades in prison for crimes involving Michigan State athletes. Students remain anxious over the future course of the university, which has yet to choose a permanent replacement for Simon.

In Friday’s board meeting, Engler attempted to steer the focus toward celebrating milestones of the university’s graduating seniors but was frequently usurped by boos and jeers from a crowd clad in teal shirts with the phrase, “I stand with the sister survivors #MeTooMSU.” Some Nassar victims wrapped their mouths with black bands that had the phrase “Silenced” scrawled over them.

Parents of victims were left in the lobby downstairs because their posters of their children’s faces were considered “signs” and thus barred from the meeting room. Protesters who were able to attend instead held up cellphones with childhood pictures of victims.

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