Leslie Wexner reaps the whirlwind
The aging billionaire will most likely play sick, dumb and blind in front of the U.S. House Oversight Committee in his New Albany compound that he used to share with dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The Rooster warned State Senator Andy Brenner on Dec. 11 that a storm was coming for Central Ohio billionaire Leslie Wexner.
“That’s a problem for him if that’s true,” Brenner said.
Yesterday, Brenner, the chairman of the Senate Education Committee, told The Rooster that he’s calling for Wexner to resign as the chairman of the Wexner Medical Center, days before the campus debuts the new University Hospital that was to serve as Wexner’s crowning philanthropic achievement.
It’s an uncharacteristically savvy move from Brenner, given that Ohio State nurses will be leading a rally on Sunday calling for Ohio State to remove the Wexner name from all campus buildings:
Survivors of Dr. Richard Strauss will also be in attendance.
The event is open to the public and is an easy answer to the question of what any average person can do against the absurdity of an institutional power like Ohio State associating with a billionaire connected to the state’s three most infamous sex scandals, despite his incredulous claims of knowing nothing about them.
The only way to beat these bozos is through solidarity.
Later today, Wexner will be deposed in his New Albany compound—the same property where several Epstein survivors have claimed they were assaulted—by the U.S. House Oversight Committee.
It’s just another galling privilege of his obscene wealth that he doesn’t even have to board a private jet to fly 45 minutes to Washington D.C. to answer questions alongside his battery of lawyers.
It wouldn’t be possible in a just society, no matter how old, frail and pathetic Wexner’s lawyers paint the thong salesman to be.
Congresswoman Shontel Brown (D-Cleveland) sits on the Oversight Committee. She’s mentioned Wexner’s name once in a tweet.
If she’s worth a damn as a legislator, she’ll immediately leak the most damaging parts of Wexner’s testimony to the media. Preferably to The Rooster through Signal.
But it’s hard to think of anything Wexner could say or provide that would lead to complete and total exoneration. If that were the case, he probably wouldn’t have been ducking a subpoena in the Dr. Strauss class-action lawsuit before Federal Judge Michael Watson ended the charade and ordered him deposed last week.
In the meantime, the free passes are over.
Mayor Suburbs, City Attorney Zach Klein, and County Commissioner Kevin Boyce apparently want to go down on U.S.S. Pedophile, thanks to their backroom alliance against City Council President Shannon Hardin in the brewing 2027 mayoral race.
Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Columbus) coming to her senses 12 hours after The Rooster excoriated her for her silence on Wexner was a welcome development.
However, we need more from Beatty. She kept money from The Limited/L Brands. She kept money from Abigail Wexner, who ain’t no Melinda Gates, that’s for sure.
She, like many of her fellow Democratic colleagues, could go to the Department of Justice, review the unredacted files, and report to us what she found.
Because, as things stand, all she’s done is post on Instagram that she donated Leslie’s money during a Friday night news dump for some reason.
Is posting on Instagram the way she wants to be remembered when we look back on this scandal? I doubt it.
Another shady private security company unlocked in Columbus, Ohio
The Rooster broke the story that disintegrated Vivek Ramaswamy’s preferred private security team, which, in reality, was little more than a fleet of unlicensed thugs being paid under the table.
That reporting drew the attention of the Ohio Department of Homeland Security (in a good way).
Given that… we’d like to draw our friends’ attentions to another shady company: Reliable Protection Services LLC, which operates out of 21 E. State Street.
A trusted source sent two pictures last night of the company cruiser bearing illegal seals, which could easily be mistaken by an untrained eye for those of the Columbus Department of Police.
The Rooster will have much, much more as this story develops. But a trusted industry source told us that Reliable Protection Services LLC should expect the attention of the Ohio Department of Homeland Security (in the bad way) later today.
Watch this space!
