When it comes to the allegations of domestic violence dogging former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, we still haven’t definitively established who knew what and when they knew it. What we do know, however, is that rumblings of abuse allegations (physical or otherwise) leveled by his ex-wives had reached certain officials more than once over the course of the past year.

According to the Washington Post, White House Counsel Don McGahn had been told by a former girlfriend of Porter’s in November “that he should investigate the abuse alleged by the ex-wives.” The Post also reported that “[a] White House official said McGahn was only aware that ex-wives were prepared to make damaging accusations about him but did not ask what the accusations were because Porter said they were not true.”