Loyal to the last day of his service, senior active duty Air Force commander Lt. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair attempted to reassign more than a dozen female subordinates and succeeded in the summer of 2013, according to court documents released this week.
Sinclair, who retired from the Air Force last year after admitting to an affair with an enlisted woman, became the central figure in a series of the Justice Department’s high-profile prosecutions of war crimes. He is alleged to have engaged in a “pattern of sexual misconduct” involving at least five women who served with him in 2012, all of whom have accused him of touching them inappropriately or raping them.
Sinclair, who is accused of one count of forcible sodomy, two counts of indecent acts, three counts of sexual assault and one count of making false official statements, is currently facing a court-martial in Charleston, S.C., this month.
Loyal to the last day of his service, senior active duty Air Force commander Lt. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair attempted to reassign more than a dozen female subordinates and succeeded in the summer of 2013, according to court documents released this week. https://t.co/CAd2CITzk4 — NPR (@NPR) December 2, 2018
He is also the subject of a Pentagon investigation, which is examining whether the deputy chief of staff at the Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations, his right-hand man, broke laws by failing to inform superiors about the transgressions, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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