Earlier this month, Johnson City officials voted to pay $28 million to settle a lawsuit filed by women under “Jane Doe” pseudonyms against the city and individual police officers that claimed police deliberately botched investigations over sexual assault allegations against Williams from 2018 to 2021.
The city and the officers have long denied corruption allegations, including a claim in the women's lawsuit that Williams paid police to obstruct investigations into sexual assault allegations against him.
Williams was also in possession of photos and videos showing him sexually assaulting at least 52 women at his Johnson City apartment while they were in an “obvious state of unconsciousness,” police wrote.
Two other federal lawsuits against Johnson City and individual police officers are still pending over the investigation of sexual assault reports against Williams.
At least half a dozen names on folders containing videos of women were consistent with first names on a list labeled “Raped” that Johnson City officers had previously found in his apartment, a police affidavit said.
