{"id":80901,"date":"2026-11-04T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/letitia-james-appoints-ex-prosecutor-to-lead-cornell-sexual-assault-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:54:50","slug":"letitia-james-appoints-ex-prosecutor-to-lead-cornell-sexual-assault-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/letitia-james-appoints-ex-prosecutor-to-lead-cornell-sexual-assault-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Letitia James appoints ex-prosecutor to lead Cornell sexual assault investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Kelly, who took part in Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs case, will head criminal inquiry into 2024 incident at university<\/p>\n<p>The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has tapped a former prosecutor involved in the Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs case to head a criminal investigation into 2024 sexual assault allegations at Cornell University.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, James <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/press-release\/2026\/attorney-general-james-appoints-veteran-prosecutor-outside-counsel-cornell\">appointed <\/a>Cornell alum Jacqueline Kelly to serve as outside counsel and lead a \u201cfair and comprehensive criminal investigation\u201d. Kelly, formerly chief of the civil rights unit in the US attorney\u2019s office for the southern district of New York, will report directly to James\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/cornell-sexual-assault-prosecutor-jacqueline-kelly\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Kelly, who took part in Sean \u2018Diddy\u2019 Combs case, will head criminal inquiry into 2024 incident at university The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has tapped a former prosecutor involved in the Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs case to head a criminal investigation into 2024 sexual assault allegations at Cornell University. On Wednesday, James appointed &#8230; <a title=\"Letitia James appoints ex-prosecutor to lead Cornell sexual assault investigation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/letitia-james-appoints-ex-prosecutor-to-lead-cornell-sexual-assault-investigation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Letitia James appoints ex-prosecutor to lead Cornell sexual assault investigation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}