Women In The Room: The Integrity of the Institution

In 2001, Elizabeth Crothers was 23 and wanted to be taken seriously. As a staffer in Albany, she says she was raped by the Assembly's chief counsel, Michael Boxley. At the time, all harassment allegations went through one powerful man: Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. This is her story, and another woman's - Jane Doe, who was sexual assaulted by Boxley in 2003 and whose story has never been told before. 

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