Conyers in sick talk of missing gal
REP. JOHN Conyers casually mentioned missing federal intern Chandra Levy when a former office intern rebuffed his advances, the woman said Wednesday.
Courtney Morse told The Washington Post she quit her internship with the Michigan Democrat after he made unwanted sexual advances after giving her a ride home a decade and a half ago.
Morse, 36, was a 20-year-old college student when Conyers “drove her home from work one night, wrapped his hand around hers as it rested in her lap, and told her he was interested in a sexual relationship,” The Post wrote. When she rejected his advances, Morse said, Conyers brought up Levy’s disappearance.
Levy, 24, a Federal Bureau of Prisons intern, disappeared in 2001. Her remains were found a year later in a Washington park.
“He said he had insider information on the case. I don’t know if he meant it to be threatening, but I took it that way,” Morse said. “I got out of the car and ran.”
Conyers, 88, the longest-serving member of the House, announced his retirement on Tuesday, amid a cascade of allegations that he sexually assaulted women who worked for his office.
His decision comes after it was reported last month that Conyers’ office paid a former aide more than $27,000 to settle a wrongful dismissal complaint.
Conyers has denied the claims.