The military has launched a new investigation of Marine Maj. Mark Thompson, the former U.S. Naval Academy instructor who insisted he was innocent of sexual misconduct with two young women while they were students at the school.

Following Washington Post revelations about Thompson, a Marine Corps prosecutor and an investigator met this week with one of his accusers, Sarah Stadler, to review the contents of her long missing cellphone, she said.

“I can confirm that the Marine Corps is examining new evidence that has recently come to light as a result of the Washington Post article about Maj. Thompson’s case,” Rex A. Runyon, a Marine Corps spokesman, said in an email. “I cannot provide additional details as it is our policy not to discuss ongoing investigations.”

Before the meeting, Stadler said she sent the prosecutor several images of text conversations between her and Thompson, who’d been convicted in 2013 of five counts of sexual misconduct, but allowed to remain a Marine.

A number of the more than 650 messages she and Thompson exchanged contradict what he said under oath in 2014 to an administrative board deciding whether he should be expelled from the armed forces. Military law experts say that such wrongdoing can lead to serious consequences. Service members who make a false official statement may face up to five years’ confinement and a dishonorable discharge.

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