The two women with whom retired U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent admitted to having nonconsensual sexual contact as part of his plea deal testified before the House Judiciary Committee Task Force on Impeachment today about Kent’s manipulative and abusive behavior as the lone judge at the federal courthouse in Galveston.

Kent’s former secretary, Donna Wilkerson, testified that when federal authorities began investigating misconduct allegations against Kent, he tried to influence her testimony by threatening suicide.

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