454: Paul Petersen
Trafficking
Paul Petersen was a Republican elected county assessor in Maricopa County, Arizona. He was charged with human smuggling and selling babies in 2019 and pled guilty in 2020.
Republican Trafficking (32 instances)
433: Meghan Wiggins
Child Abuse, Trafficking
Meghan Wiggins and her husband Gary operated Joshua Home, an anti-gay conversion camp, in Alabama, Missouri, and Texas, moving on when closed by authorities for abusing and trafficking the children.
432: Gary Wiggins
Child Abuse, Trafficking
Gary Wiggins ran an anti-gay “conversion” camp with his wife Meghan. They were both indicted for trafficking the children sent to their camp. The children were subject to physical abuse and forced labor. They had moved on to Illinois after the State of Texas shut down their Joshua Home. Texas followed the closing of their home in Missouri for child abuse allegations and in Alabama before that. They were extradited from Alabama to Texas.
415: John Fickas
Child Molestation, Child Rape, Rape, Sexual Harassment, Trafficking
John Fickas was a Republican campaign consultant in California. He was also a volunteer high school track and field coach. He also raped students. He raped a 15-year-old and a 22-year-old former student while they were unconscious. His third victim was 42. He raped a 15-year-old assigned to volunteer with him on campaign duties twice.…
397: George Nader
Child Molestation, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Trafficking
George Nader is a Lebanese-American businessman and consultant with close ties to Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and to Donald Trump. He worked with Erik Prince of Blackwater. He met with Donald Trump, Jr. and representatives of various authoritarian Arab regimes who pledged to help elect Trump. He brokered several more meetings with members of the Trump Administration and Saudi and UAE officials and organized a conference with Elliott Broidy to remove Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State at the behest of the Emiratis and Saudis.
354: Jerod Prunty
Trafficking
Jerod Prunty, aide to Louisiana Republican congressman Clay Higgins, was arrested for pandering along with eight other people in a trafficking case in Lafayette Parish. The trafficking operation was centered around five massage parlors. His roommate Pingjuan Xia was indicted as a co-conspirator and it is believed that Prunty introduced her to rich and influential men who then patronized her “massage parlors” that were staffed with immigrants forced to service clients.
173: Norman McAllister
Sexual Assault, Trafficking
Norman McAllister was a Republican state senator in Vermont when he was charged with sexual assault of one woman and sexual abuse of two other women whom he forced to trade sex for their rent. He had four trials. One was a mistrial. Two where he was found guilty. One of the women died. The final trial resulted in an acquittal and thus, exonerated.
96: Lawrence Scott Ward
Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material, Trafficking
Lawrence Scott Ward was an Ivy League professor at Harvard Business School and later at Wharton. He was hired by major companies as a consultant making him a rich man. He was the Chairman of the Marketing Department at University of Pennsylvania. He also founded a nonprofit called the Rebound Foundation which included faculty and students at Penn, in order to help “troubled kids.” It was easy access for Ward to exploit and abuse these kids and he took full advantage of it.
48: Tim Nolan
Child Rape, Sexual Assault, Trafficking
Tim Nolan was a tough-on-crime judge, a Republican party activist, and a Trump campaign supporter. The story of his progress from “hanging judge” to felon is circuitous and centers on a bar he owned. But however he got there, Tim Nolan pleaded guilty to 21 counts of human trafficking, some of the cases involving minors.…
47: Richard A. Dasen Sr
Child Rape, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Trafficking
Richard A. Dasen, Sr. was a big donor to Republican candidates and causes as well as running Christian Financial Counseling for people who got into debt. He also spent a lot of money on sex workers, some of them underage, and he used his position to extort sex from women in financial trouble. He claimed…