My book, Code of Silence, reveals the full story of the Kent case and the toll it took on McBroom, a native Texan. With the #MeToo movement, more troubling complaints began to surface about federal judges and other coverups nationwide. District Judge Samuel Bristow Kent became the first jurist in the nation’s history to be impeached for sex crimes -against McBroom and another woman -and eventually went to prison. As an investigative reporter and later as an author, I learned a lot about what happened to McBroom and other victims that I could not publish-partly because sources were sworn to secrecy or feared powerful federal judges. Cathy McBroom’s awful experiences remained locked inside a secret system in which federal judges review complaints about each other.
courthouse and she’d run crying from his chambers. I was working in the Houston Chronicle newsroom in downtown Houston when I first heard a rumor that seemed too shocking to be true: A federal judge sexually assaulted his top assistant inside a U.S.
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