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277: Gary Schaffrick

Child Endangerment

Gary Schaffrick was the Connecticut Republican State Central Committee Treasurer. He also was a paid employee of the party. He often bragged about how much he enjoyed bathtime with a five-year-old victim, a young boy who also slept with him on sleepovers. He was babysitting the child for a relative. He was charged with risk of injury to a child, a broad charge that encompasses offenses from supplying a child with cigarettes, alcohol, adult materials, or inappropriate sexual contact. He resigned after the press sued for release of details of his arrest warrant. He pleaded guilty and was given a ten-year suspended sentence and five years probation.

187: Christopher von Keyserling

Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment

Christopher von Keyserling was a member of the Representative Town Meeting of Greenwich, CT when he sexually assaulted a woman employed by the town. A Republican, he celebrated Trump’s upcoming 2017 Inauguration by reaching through a town employee’s legs and pinching her groin, an action Trump bragged about on tape. He said he no longer had to be “politically correct.”

Initially, the woman only told her supervisor and had no intent to file a criminal complaint, but learned he had done this to other women at the office. Von Keyserling had served 32 years and ran for re-election, he lost. He was found guilty and sentenced to house arrest

15: Peter Dibble

Child Abuse, Sexual Misconduct

Peter Dibble was a Republican selectman in Stonington, CT, who was charged with sexual misconduct with a minor girl on at least 40 occasions over the course of several years, from when she was ten until she was thirteen. He pled no contest to lesser charges of child endangerment and was sentenced to a suspended…

11: Philip Giordano

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Philip Giordano was the Mayor of Waterbury, CT and a one-time Republican Senate nominee and has since been convicted of raping children and sentenced to 37 years in prison. Just the headlines on the long series of stories about him at the New York Times will turn your stomach. The FBI was investigating Giordano for…