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Her Story Brought Down Alaska’s Attorney General. A Year Later, She Feels Let Down

By Kyle Hopkins, ProPublica co-published with Anchorage Daily News

Nikki Dougherty White came forward to say Alaska’s acting attorney general had an inappropriate relationship with her when she was a teen, and he resigned. That was more than a year ago, and the state’s investigation has barely moved.

More than a year after the acting Alaska attorney general suddenly resigned, the criminal investigation into his alleged sexual contact with a teenager decades ago is not complete, and two special prosecutors hired to look into the case have billed for less than two weeks’ time.

Nikki Dougherty White told the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica in January 2021 that Ed Sniffen began an illegal sexual relationship with her in 1991 when she was a 17-year-old high school student and Sniffen was the coach of her school’s mock trial team. Sniffen was 27 years old at the time.

Read more at: https://www.propublica.org/article/her-story-brought-down-alaskas-attorney-general-a-year-later-she-feels-let-down

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