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Month: September 2022

232: Thomas Ravenel

Rape, Sexual Assault
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Thomas Ravenel was the State Treasurer of South Carolina when he was convicted of buying cocaine to distribute. In 2008, he was sent to prison for ten months. He then went on to star in the reality TV show “Southern Charm.” He ran for the US Senate in 2014. In 2018, one woman alleged he sexually assaulted her mother but she amended her suit to withdraw that accusation. She also accused the other woman who came forward of lying.

Ravenel’s children’s nanny, accused him of sexual assault and rape. Ravenel pled guilty to 3rd degree sexual assault and was given a 30-day suspended sentence and fined $500. He also settled a civil suit with the nanny by donating to a charity for sexual assault survivors so she supported his minimal sentence. Another woman shared allegations of him flipping a switch and trying to physically intimidate her.

231: Al Harrison

Extortion, Hostile Workplace, Rape
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Al Harrison was the Gulf County Florida sheriff. He used this position as sheriff to force imprisoned women to have sex with him. That is rape. One of the women whom he raped six times also alleged he threatened her with a gun. US. Marshals took him into custody, charged with the federal crimes. He was charged with ten misdemeanor counts of violating their civil rights. Prosecutors said the charges are misdemeanors because federal law requires serious bodily injury for a civil rights violation to be a felony. Why is rape not considered a serious bodily injury?

230: Robert Bentley

Extortion, Hostile Workplace, Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Robert Bentley was the governor of Alabama when a scandal broke about him having an affair with a married woman. While hypocritical and not nice, it is not necessarily predatory, since they were consenting adults. Except she worked for him so the relationship becomes problematic and not one of equals. In addition, he bullied his other staff who were privy to the affair as they carried on in his office. He also threatened his now ex-wife’s staff when he sent text messages to his lover that linked to his wife’s iPad to ensure she did not find out. Adding to his problems he illegally used public funds to carry on the affair and used campaign funds for personal use.

229: George H. W. Bush

Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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George H. W. Bush was the President of the United States from 1989 to 2003, between Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. In 2017, eight women accused him of groping them including one woman who said she was sixteen when he it happened.

His defenders point out that being in a wheelchair, his arm is at an awkward height for photos and he may just be putting his arm around someone as people do, but sitting, he’s too low and it’s perceived as groping. But one of the women said he groped her in 1992, the year he ran against Bill Clinton for president. In 2003, when he is said to have groped a sixteen-year-old, he was spinning around Kennebunkport on a Segway.

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228: Brett Kavanaugh

Rape Culture, Sexual Assault
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Brett Kavanaugh is a Supreme Court Justice. During his confirmation hearing, news of an attempted rape allegation was leaked to the media and became a significant part of his confirmation hearing. Like Clarence Thomas before him, he indulged in an angry rant that shut off further inquiry into the allegation.

Christine Blasey Ford testified at the hearing and so did Kavanaugh. He produced his calendar from back in high school to provide himself an alibi, though it substantiated her timeline more effectively than his. Other women came forward alleging sexual assaults but they were not called as witnesses and their allegations were not investigated. The FBI did not do an investigation of her allegation, though they claimed to have done so at the time. Tips about Kavanaugh’s past were not forwarded for investigation but instead sent to the White House.

227: Joe Fain

Rape
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Joe Fain was a Washington state senator. Inspired by Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Candace Faber came forward alleging Joe Fain had raped her eleven years earlier in 2007. She told her parents about the rape in 2009. She wrote a blog post not naming her attacker but describing the assault. She told other people about it and has a photo from that night with Joe Fain. This was not a simple allegation without supporting evidence.

Since his accuser does not support incarceration but prefers restorative healing as justice, she will not press charges, hoping that she can heal and so can Fain. This means absent a Senate investigation, there will be no police investigation.
The Washington Senate approved a bipartisan investigation, but Republicans rejected every investigator proposed. When Fain lost the general election, the investigation was suspended since they could not agree on an investigator. The allegation remains uninvestigated like the majority of rapes that occur.

226: Leonard Church

Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material
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Leonard Church served two terms as Kennesaw, Georgia’s mayor, and continued to serve after that as a city council member. He was accused of sexually molesting a 9-year-old boy after showing the boy child pornography. They found between 800 and 1000 child sexual exploitation images on his computer devices. He originally pled not guilty, but changed his plea to guilty in a deal where the prosecutors changed the charge from aggravated child molestation to simple child molestation. He will spent 18 years in prison. He earlier rejected a plea deal that would have only been 15 years.

225: Coy C. Privette

Solicitation
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Coy C. Privette was a retired Baptist minister, a former North Carolina state legislator, and a Cabarrus County Commissioner when he was charged with aiding and abetting prostitution. He was also the president of the Christian Action League. He resigned from the League immediately to protect them from his scandal.

This project does not track consensual adult activities, including patronizing sex workers. He is included because he stopped payment on the checks claiming they were stolen. If you renege on a contract with a sex worker, it’s not really consensual, is it?

He denied the allegations but the police had video of him booking the room and taking the woman there. He pled guilty.

224: Jack Ryan

Coercion
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Jack Ryan was the Republican candidate for Senate running against Barack Obama in 2004. That campaign was derailed when the media won disclosure of his divorce settlement with ex-wife Jeri Ryan. In the divorce, she stated that he forced her to go to swingers clubs and pressured her to have sex while others watched. This…

223: Bill Kramer

Sexual Assault
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Bill Kramer was a Wisconsin State Assembly member and the Majority Leader. He was accused of sexually harassing two women, a lobbyist and a legislative aide, at a D.C. fundraiser in February 2014. When that became public, another woman came forward, reporting to the police that Kramer had assaulted and groped a woman in 2011. While she did not go to police at the time, she had a lawyer send Kramer a letter telling him to stay away from her. She had witnesses to her distress the night of the incident. She said she didn’t come forward at the time to avoid embarrassing herself, her family, and the Republican party.

His party removed him as Majority Leader and called on him to resign but he refused to do so.

In a plea deal, Kramer pled no contest two two counts of misdemeanor assault which meant that he was not required to resign. He was sentenced to five months in jail. He apologized to the woman, claiming he was struggling with alcohol at the time.