Sharon Lewis, an LSU associate AD, is suing her bosses, LSU board members, Taylor Porter and others, alleging a RICO Act conspiracy to cover up Title IX complaints and years of abuse and retaliation for reporting Les Miles’ sexual harassment.
In an exclusive interview with USA TODAY, Lewis described a pattern of abusive treatment and retaliation by Miles, Verge Ausberry, Miriam Segar, compliance director Bo Bahnsen and other athletics officials. The retaliation, she said, continues to this day.
Lewis said Miles harassed and undermined her for years, trying to sexualize the group of student workers she supervised. Ausberry verbally abused her, she said, and he and Segar lied to an LSU Title IX investigator to get her in trouble.
”They get to lie, and they get to admit that they lied, and come back to work,” Lewis said on a Zoom call with USA TODAY, accompanied by her attorneys. “I mean, it’s about – we have to set a standard there, that’s all.”