- June 17, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
BATON ROUGE – Two LSU athletics employees used their university-issued emails to discuss official business while suspended earlier this year after a high-profile investigation found a culture of tolerance for sexual misconduct and even violent behavior.
In the wake of the Husch Blackwell report findings on LSU’s Title IX policies in March, the university suspended Senior Associate Athletics Director Miriam Segar and Executive Deputy Athletics Director Verge Ausberry.
A WBRZ Investigative Unit inquiry found Segar and Ausberry continued to handle university-related business while suspended. Documents obtained by the WBRZ Investigative Unit show Segar and Ausberry both sent and received emails from their LSU accounts while on unpaid leave.
Segar was suspended for 21 days while Ausberry served a month-long suspension. Both suspensions began March 5, the day the Husch Blackwell report was released.
The university provided 84 pages of emails sent and…
