Exposing the Corruption of the "Family Values" Party
Kelly Jay Carter was a fire battalion chief for the Salt Lake City Fire Department until his recent retirement. He worked for the fire department from 2000 to 2025.
He was arrested in February 2026 for purchasing and possessing child sexual abuse material. He was charged with ten felony counts sexual exploitation of a minor.
Carter Miles Ledoux of Lake Charles, Louisiana, is a member of a white supremacist group that the Department of Justice has identified as a Nihilist Violent Extremist (NVE) organization. After a minor girl expressed support for interracial relationships on social media, Ledoux allegedly led a conspiracy with the NVE group he belongs to to stalk, harass, threaten, and swat her and her family.
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.
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.
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.
Shawn Patrick Myers was elected to the Grove City City Council representing the Third Ward in 2012. He won reelection to his fourth term in 2023 but was arrested before he was sworn in. He has been replaced by an appointee.
He was arraigned for involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, corruption of minors, disseminating explicit sexual material with a minor, and endangering the welfare of children. The child was nine years old.
William (Bill) Carns was the former Chair of the Nye County Republican Party. He was arrested on January 31, 2026. He was charged with He faces creating or distributing child sexual abuse material and using the internet to control explicit images of someone under the age of 16. In addition, he had three gun charges, including possessing a sawed-off shotgun, possession of a dangerous weapon, and having a firearm without a serial number.
Robert Sacco was a Nassau County police officer until his arrest for attempted sexual exploitation of a child. He tried to talk a father into raping his ten-year-old daughter. The father was an undercover investigator trawling a site focusing on nudism in the home hoping to catch predators.
He pleaded guilty to producing child sexual abuse material. He was sentenced to fifteen years in prison and 20 years supervised release.
Ryan McDonough was a doctor in Wasilla, Alaska. He was appointed to the State Medical Board by Alaska’s Republican Governor Mike Dunleavy in August 2025. He resigned in November, a few days before his arrest for possession of child sexual abuse material. In his short tenure, however, he voted in favor of disciplining doctors who provide gender-affirming care and limiting abortion access.