December 18, 2018      7:09 PM

Updated: UT releases summary of report on Sen. Schwertner, says he did not fully cooperate

Sen. Schwertner says "The University of Texas has closed their investigation because I did not send the offensive text messages in question”

Public information requests resulted in the University of Texas at Austin releasing a three-page executive summary of an outside investigation that concluded the university did not have the findings to pursue sexual harassment allegations against Sen. Charles Schwertner. 

A University of Texas graduate student accused Schwertner of sending inappropriate texts – and explicit pictures – to pursue a sexual relationship with her. Schwertner vehemently denied such actions, and his attorneys said he passed a lie detector test on the subject. Schwertner’s lawyers labeled the investigation, first revealed by the Austin American Statesman, to be “a leak of university officials to the press to damage Sen. Schwertner in the middle of a political campaign.”

"The University of Texas has closed their investigation because I did not send the offensive text messages in question," Schwertner said in a statement released by his attorneys. "I appreciate the steadfast support of my family, friends, and the voters who believed in and reelected me just weeks ago," he said. The full statement is here.

By Kimberly Reeves

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