Earlier this year, Joseph Comer, a member of the West Virginia State Police, sent a five-page anonymous letter to multiple state lawmakers, including the Governor, Jim Justice, and the attorney general, Patrick Morrisey, alleging corruption within the department.
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The letter contained multiple damaging claims, including alleged hidden cameras in women’s locker rooms in the department, casino thefts, cover-ups, abductions, druggings and s*xual assault.
At the time, Joseph Comer, who was a Corporal Police at the department, did not reveal his identity, fearing retaliation. The whistle-blower has since come forward, stating he couldn’t be complicit in the misconduct within the department.
In the ensuing months, the letter sparked a slew of investigations against the department, which prompted the governor to comment, “The more we dug, the worse it stunk,” in March. Justice then reportedly handed the investigation over to homeland security, as well as the interim superintendent of the West Virginia state police, Jack Chambers, to launch an investigation into the wrongdoings.
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