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216: Raymond Liddy

Child Sexual Abuse Material

Raymond Liddy is the son of G. Gordon Liddy, the Watergate burglar who infamously suggested people should shoot federal law enforcement agents from the ATF in the head because they wear body armor. He worked as state deputy attorney general in California. He was also convicted of possession of child pornography.

215: Anthony Silva

Child Sexual Abuse Material, Secret Photos or Recordings

Anthony Silva was elected mayor of Stockton, California, in 2012. From 2004 to 2008, he was on the school board for Stockton Unified School District. Stockton’s local elections are nonpartisan but local media identify him as a Republican. In 2015, the FBI confiscated his phone in an investigation into financial improprieties. They discovered a video made at a youth camp Silva used to run. He was providing alcohol and playing strip poker with minors. They let the local police know and eventually the police arrested him.

170: Brian O’Toole

Child Molestation

Brian O’Toole was first elected to the Sunnyvale City Council in 1983. He served as mayor from 1985 to 1986 and was re-elected in 1989 for a two-year term. He was charged in July 1990, with molesting a boy under the age of fourteen for six years from 1983 to 1989. He met the boy through the Big Brother program.

He later pled guilty and was sentenced to six years.

159: Ernie Konnyu

Sexual Harassment

Ernie Konnyu was a Republican Representative from Silicon Valley when he was accused of sexual harassment. He served one term in Congress and three in the California House of Representatives. There he pushed the workfare bill, requiring people on welfare to work for their benefits. He went to Congress and was one of authors of the welfare reform bill that forced people on welfare to work.

In his first year in Congress, he was accused of sexual harassment by three women.

158: John Schmitz

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct

John Schmitz was a California congressman who when he taught political science in college got Carla Stuckle, one of his students pregnant. He continued to see her for many years and fathered a second child. It all came out when the woman was arrested for child abuse and he came forward to serve as her…

140: Alex Kozinski

Sexual Harassment

Judge Alex Kozinski was Brett Kavanaugh’s mentor. A Reagan appointee, he spent decades on the bench and it seems likely he was sexually harassing women all along, but six women came forward in 2017, then another nine women. He resigned. Trump hired him for his legal battle with Twitter. Wikipedia: Alex Kozinski Washington Post: Judge…

106: Jeffrey Ray Nielsen

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Child Sexual Abuse Material

Jeffrey Ray Nielson is the son of former Fountain Valley Republican mayor Ben Nielsen. Republican political connections framed his entire life. He interned for Orange County DA’s office. Then he went to work for Representative Dana Rohrabacher as an aide. Meanwhile, he pursued 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys. He was eventually arrested for molesting two…

87: Don Haidl

Enabling, Rape Culture

Don Haidl was Assistant Sheriff in Orange County when his son and two friends gang-raped an unconscious sixteen-year-old girl. The rape was videotaped by them. It was incredibly vicious. She went to the police and Don Haidl used his position as Assistant Sheriff to shame and attack the victim in the press.

64: Ronald C. Kline

Uncategorized

Ronald C. Kline was appointed Orange County Superior Court Judge by Republican Governor Pete Wilson in 1995. A Canadian hacker emailed a trojan horse that enabled him to discover over 1500 separate pieces of child sexual abuse material and forwarded them to a group of people who advocate against child sexual abuse. After that, a…