Wednesday | October 27th, 2021
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1) Exclusive: Terry McAuliffe Tied To Controversial Law Firm
The Topline: In a Daily Wire exclusive investigative report, ties have been revealed between Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, and a law firm that has been aggressively fighting parents and alleged sexual assault victims on behalf of public school systems.
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The Findings
Terry McAuliffe was employed by the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, which The Daily Wire discovered has been fighting victims of alleged sexual assault in schools on behalf of schools and school administrators.
The Case
A 22-year-old woman is suing a school system and several administrators over incidents which occurred when she was 12 years old. She alleges she was raped on school grounds, and medical records appeared to support this at the time.
She allegedly went to administrators about sexual harassment and claims the assistant principal said the suspect “had been in enough trouble” and asked her mother not to “ruin a kid’s life.”
When she became an adult, just before the statute of limitations ran out, she sued her alleged rapist, the school system, and several school officials for their alleged failures to make changes after the alleged incident.
McAuliffe Connection
The law firm, Hunton Andrews Kurth, hired McAuliffe as an advisor in 2019. Based upon a campaign ethics disclosure, he was compensated at least $250,000 recently for services related to “cybersecurity/law.”
From 2014 to 2018, the Fairfax school system paid the Hunton firm around $500,000 per year.
From 2019-2021 the law firm received about $4.4 million, $2.5 million, and then about $3 million in each of those years.
Key Point: Teachers unions donated nearly a million dollars combined to McAuliffe’s campaign.
Title IX
The law firm where McAuliffe served as an advisor is involved in a Title IX case, and they’re arguing on the side of administrators rather than the kids. They’re trying to take it to the Supreme Court, and depending how they rule, it could set a precedent that could affect schools all over the country.
Loudoun County Scandal Update
On Monday, the boy accused of raping Scott Smith’s daughter appeared in juvenile court where a judge determined there were “facts sufficient” to believe the teen boy committed sexual assault, which is the equivalent of a guilty verdict in juvenile court.
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