Lawmakers directed their frustrations and questions about LSU’s handling of sexual misconduct cases at the university’s top attorney for nearly two hours in a state Senate committee hearing Thursday — a public meeting in which the lawmakers had expected to question 10 university officials who mostly sent in written statements instead.
Winston DeCuir, LSU’s general counsel, testified before the Senate Select Committee on Women and Children. He repeated his explanation that the invited officials were absent because the university is facing a lawsuit from an athletic department employee over issues they would have talked about at the hearing.
One after the other, all 10 LSU staffers, board members and lawyers who were asked to testify Thursday before the Senate Select Committee on W…
Associate athletic director Sharon Lewis filed that lawsuit on Thursday morning, claiming she had been…