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Month: August 2022

148: Clarence Thomas

Sexual Harassment
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In 1991, when Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court, Anita Hill was interviewed by the FBI during their investigation of him. She was a former colleague and so was expected to confirm his good character. Instead, she told the FBI that he had sexually harassed her. Her interview was leaked and there was a media firestorm during the Clarence Thomas hearings with Republican senators calling her a liar and Democrats doing their best to see nothing. Hill had corroborating witnesses who were never called.

147: Edison Misla Aldarondo

Uncategorized
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Edison Misla Aldaronda was the Republican Speaker of the House in Puerto Rico. He resigned amid a corruption scandal in 2001. A year later, a seventeen-year-old friend of his stepdaughter accused him of rape after giving her alcohol and prescription drugs. His step-daughter came forward and claimed he had been molesting her for eight years.…

146: Robert Kerns

Rape, Sexual Assault
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Robert Kerns was the chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party in Pennsylvania. He was charged with three counts of indecent assault, two counts of aggravated indecent assault, one count of rape, one count of sexual assault, and one count of simple assault. He took an Alford plea to a lesser charge of misdemeanor indecent assault. An Alford please is like pleading no contest except the defendant claims to be innocent but acknowledges he would be convicted based on the evidence.

145: Eric Greitens

Child Abuse, Familial Abuse & Violence, Sexual Misconduct
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Eric Greitens was the governor of Missouri when he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman and using a photo he took of her while she was blindfolded to extort her silence. The telling thing was that members of his own party led the investigation and the demands for his resignation. Prosecutors made a deal to drop some charges against him if he resigned. He resigned.