USO: Allegations against Al Franken ‘deeply disturbing’

Published November 16, 2017 10:25pm ET



The USO said Thursday the allegations against Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., are “deeply disturbing” and don’t reflect the organization’s values.

Ashley McLellan, a spokeswoman for the USO, told the Washington Examiner in an email the USO didn’t have any knowledge of the incident involving Franken and radio host Leeann Tweeden, who participated in a USO tour in the Middle East in 2006.

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