Craig Scott Valdez was Alaska state Sen. George Rauscher’s Chief of Staff since November, 2025, and had worked for him since 2021. He was also the Chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans. He has been removed from all positions since his arrest on four felony charges involving child sexual exploitation.
Paul Havsgaard is a former pastor at Harvest Christian Fellowship megachurch, a church closely associated with Turning Point USA, the arch-conservative organization founded by Charlie Kirk dedicated to recruiting college students to support MAGA candidates, particularly Trump. Erika Kirk kicked off a TPUSA national tour at Harvest Christian Fellowship in January, 2026.
He is alleged to have sexually abused and trafficked young children at orphanages the church operated in Romania. Twenty-two men and women allege they were physically and sexually abused while they were children under his care. They also allege Harvest Christian Fellowship failed to fulfill their duty to protect the children, waiting twenty years before telling the police about Havsgaard, despite being informed of the abuse my family members of the children, visitors to the orphanages, and other people.
Shawn DeRemer is the president of an anesthesia company in Oregon and the husband of Trump Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer. He is currently banned from her workplace due to allegations that he has sexually assaulted women who work there.
Wesley Dingus was the Republican Mayor of Butler, Ohio. He resigned in late February, 2026, shortly after his arrest for voyeurism. He was filmed sniffing a minor girl’s panties while rubbing himself. And not just once.
Wesley Dingus was the mayor of Butler, Ohio. He resigned after his recent arrest for voyeurism. He was also arrested in August, 2025, for running over a person wanted for a parole violation.
Dingus was filmed sniffing at least four pieces of a minor girl’s underwear and touching himself. She had suspected him of going in her room, catching him there when she came back after leaving for school. She put in a camera that filmed him in the act.
William “Billy” Robbins is a Baptist minister in Fritch, Texas where he also served as a city alderman and was elected mayor in 2022. He has been arrested for soliciting child sexual abuse material.
David Nephi Johnson is the Chairman of the Wasatch County Republican Party in Idaho. He has been arrested for felony child abuse for waterboarding his daughter.
Stephen Stokes is a former County Commissioner of Benton County, Tennessee. He was also a teacher. He continued to serve as commissioner until his sentencing despite calls for his removal for absenteeism even before he was arrested for sexual battery of a minor in June 2025.
Leon David Black is a billionaire investor and co-founder of Apollo Global Management. While he is technically politically unaffiliated, he is a big campaign donor and two-thirds of his donations are to Republicans. He was also a good friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
In 2023, he was sued by a woman who alleged that Leon Black raped her in Epstein’s townhouse when she was just sixteen years old.
Andrew Cirone is a Fort Collins, Colorado, police officer currently on unpaid leave due to being arrested for attempted exploitation of a child. While he was investigating a case, a woman reported he talked to her adult daughter and asked for sexually explicit photos from when she was a child.