LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is responding Wednesday after former MSU Dean of Osteopathic Medicine William Strampel was sentenced to jail.
In a statement Nessel said "Today's sentencing sends a resoundingly clear message to public officials: if you brandish your power to demean, insult, harass, objectify and abuse women, you will be held accountable."
Strampel was sentenced to serve 11 months in the Ingham County Jail for his misconduct in office charge and one year for each charge of willful neglect of duty,
Those sentences will be served concurrently.
Strampel is the first person charged in the 2017 investigation regarding how the university handled complaints against imprisoned sports doctor Larry Nassar.
During Strampel's sentencing, victim impact statements were read in court.
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