Illinois lawmakers to get new top watchdog with ‘strong background in sexual harassment’
Former federal prosecutor
Now a state ethics panel has picked
Bourne, a
"She has a really strong background in sexual harassment," Bourne said. "Her knowledge was really impressive."
Bourne said the bipartisan
"I am confident that
Porter took the job last year in the days after a victims' rights advocate alleged she was harassed by a state senator and her complaints went unanswered for nearly a year.
Most of Porter's work has been done behind the scenes, but she determined in a public report that Silverstein did not engage in sexual harassment while working with Rotheimer to pass a bill but "did behave in a manner unbecoming of a legislator."
In a different case, Porter wrote that "evidence does not support" abuse complaints against a former top deputy of Democratic House Speaker
Lang held his own news conference immediately afterward, calling the accusations "absurd" and asking the legislative inspector general for an investigation. In a letter to Lang, Porter wrote that she attempted to reach Loncar via mail, email and Facebook but that "she has declined to respond to my overtures." Porter did interview Lang and other witnesses.
"Because a preponderance of evidence does not support Loncar's allegations that you engaged in misconduct, I am closing the matter," Porter wrote.
Porter was a member of the prosecution team in the Conrad Black fraud trial and worked on public corruption cases including those that led to the convictions of
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