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Ex-Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder Says He’s Cleared in Sexual Misconduct Case

‘NOT RESPONSIBLE’

He says Virginian Commonwealth University overruled an outside investigation that found he kissed a student against her will.

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Former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder says a panel at Virginia Commonwealth University has cleared him of sexual misconduct allegations, overruling an outside investigator who found he had kissed a 20-year-old student against her wishes. “I was not responsible for non-consensual sexual contact,” Wilder told reporters on Thursday—though neither the university nor the woman, Sydney Black, confirmed that. Black told The Washington Post last spring that Wilder kissed her and offered to let her live with him. Wilder, 88, is a $150,000-a-year government professor at VCU.

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