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121: Steve Wynn

Sexual Harassment

Steve Wynn created many of the most popular and well-known Las Vegas casinos. He was also the Finance Chair of the Republican National Committee. He is a huge Republican donor. He was forced to resign from his Wynn Resorts company and the RNC finance position because of sexual harassment allegations. He was also accused of…

113: Eddie Frankum

Sexual Harassment

Eddie Frankum was the police chief of Pelican Bay, Texas, when he decided to run for county sheriff in another county. However, a grand jury indicted him with illegally detaining a woman and two counts of sexual harassment by touching. He was accused by two women of touching them inappropriately during arrest searches. My Plainview:…

97: James E. West

Sexual Harassment, Solicitation of a Minor

James E. West was the mayor of Spokane, WA, and was well-known for his homophobia. While he was in the legislature he supported a bill banning gay people from working in schools and day care programs. He also proposed a wackadoodle bill banning sex between any unmarried people under the age of 18. The local…

92: Bill O’Reilly

Sexual Harassment

Bill O’Reilly is a professional blowhard whose certainty is greatest when he is most wrong. He has survived multiple controversies over his open racism. He settled a sexual harassment scandal in 2004 that led to many jokes about his love of loofahs. He was finally ousted for sexual harassment in 2017. Bill O’Reilly still has…

75: Garrett Ventry

Sexual Harassment

Garrett Ventry was Iowa Republican Sen. Grassley’s communications aide and assigned to speak for the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Kavanaugh nomination. He abruptly resigned when asked about sexual harassment allegations against him. Previously, Ventry worked as a social media adviser in 2017 in the office of North Carolina House Majority Leader John Bell, who…

59: John Gosek

Sexual Harassment, Solicitation of a Minor

John Gosek, former Mayor of Oswego, NY, was reported by a woman who worked as a monitor at a local school. He had asked her to find young girls he could have sex with. He offered to give the girls cocaine, alcohol, and ecstasy. Instead of setting him up with girls, she set him up…

22: Mark Foley

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

Mark Foley was a popular Republican Representative when, in September 2006, a Congressional page revealed texts that Foley was sending him, they were sexual in nature and inappropriate with Congressional page interns, a form of sexual harassment. He had done this several times and pages had complained and reported in the past, so the scandal…

21: Dan Crane

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

Rep. Dan Crane was an Illinois representative to the U.S. House of Representatives where he had an affair with a 17-year-old girl in the Congressional page program. He ran for re-election and was defeated. Ironically, a year before his actions were revealed he commented that people who have affairs with pages should be punished. He…

696: Byron Campbell

Sexual Harassment

Byron Campbell cost the city of Concord, CA, $1.3 million when a jury found him guilty of sexual harassment and the city guilty of failing to respond adequately to the complaint. Rita Hardin sued Campbell and the Concord City Council in 1993. She contended that the former mayor had created a hostile work environment by making sexually…