Veteran Democrat John Conyers announced on Tuesday he is retiring from the US House of Representatives after more than five decades in office, following a series of sexual harassment accusations by former staffers. “I am retiring today,” Conyers, 88, told a Detroit radio station, as he became the first to step down among four serving US lawmakers facing sexual misconduct allegations. The lawmaker was abandoned by party leadership when the seriousness of the allegations against him became apparent. “It was sexual harassment, violating my body, propositioning me, inviting me to hotels with the guise of discussing business and then propositioning me for sex,” Brown told NBC. The others are Senate Democrat Al Franken, House Democrat Ruben Kihuen, and House Republican Blake Farenthold.

Source: Pakistan Today December 05, 2017 19:30 UTC