INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A member of Mayor Joe Hogsett’s own party on Thursday says Hogsett was complicit in accusations that his former chief of staff sexually harassed at least three female employees.

City-County Councilor Jesse Brown, a Democrat, said in a statement Hogsett has not responded to the council’s demand for information about what he knew about allegations against Thomas Cook. Cook was Hogsett’s chief of staff from 2014 until Dec. 2020, and later served a key role in Hogsett’s successful bid for a third term in 2023.

Three former staffers told News 8’s reporting partner Mirror Indy that Cook plied them with drinks in bars and repeatedly manipulated them into romantic relationships with him despite his being married with a child. T...