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Then-U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly at a 2015 press conference.
A former U.S. attorney who put gangbangers and opioid dealers behind bars is now looking to help Yale get to the bottom of an alleged sexual harassment by a former professor.
Yale announced Monday that it has hired the former prosector, Deirdre M. Daly, to assist in its investigation of former psychiatry professor Eugene Redmond.
Redmond faced multiple sexual misconduct accusations from student interns who worked for him at a St. Kitts-based lab when he retired in June 2018, according to a university release. “He is banned from the Yale campus and denied the privileges of a retired faculty member,” the release states. (Read the full release here.)
“Last summer, the university conducted disciplinary proceedings against Redmond in connection with a recent allegation of misconduct,” the Yale release reports.
“In the course of investigating that allegation, it emerged that additional sexual misconduct complaints had been brought against Redmond in 1994 by interns who worked on St. Kitts. A Yale investigation in 1994 had been unable to verify those earlier allegations, but Redmond confirmed that he would end the internship program. At some point in the last several years, however, Redmond again began inviting interns to St. Kitts for the summer, and two individuals who as students participated in the revived internship program have brought forward complaints: one of these led to the 2018 disciplinary proceeding, and another complaint was brought forward in 2019.”
So now Yale has launched a new “comprehensive and independent” investigation of possible additional misconduct by Redmond, investigation for which it has hired Daly, who was widely respected in New Haven during her tenure as U.S. attorney for both her outreach to the community and the success of her office in tackling gun-related violence and rising opioid deaths in cooperation with local law enforcement. She is now a partner in the law firm of Finn, Dixon & Herling.
“We must learn whether there are additional survivors who wish to come forward, and we need to understand the facts relating to the internship program,” the release quotes University President Peter Salovey as saying.
The university urged anyone with relevant information to contact Daly at (866) 277‑2881 or [email protected].
“Deirdre Daly was not just the first female U.S. attorney in the state of Connecticut,” New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell, who worked closely with her, when she announced her resignation in 2017. “She was by far one of the best U.S. attorneys that this state has ever known. … [She] brought all of the law enforcement community closer together. New Haven is a safer, healthier and richer community thanks to Deirdre Daly.”
