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Brennan recounted the days, weeks and months after she says she was raped by Albert J. Alvarez, who resigned in October as chief of staff to the New Jersey Schools Development Authority.
I think she "says" happened in the past, and the main tense is also in past tense.
It would be in the past if it were an action which has stopped. The fact that present is used implies that she has never actually stopped saying it.
In other words, she was saying it then, and she's saying it now.
