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1126: Jeff Thomas

Kidnapping, Sexual Assault, Sexual Battery
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Jeff Thomas was the Republican District Attorney in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. He was found guilty of strangulation during sexual violence, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint, indecent assault (lack of consent), false imprisonment, and simple assault. He went to her house despite her negative response to his request to let him come over and to send dirty pictures. He showed up and she claims he sexually assaulted her, striking her and strangling her.

876: Matthew Foster

Child Molestation, Rape Culture
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Matthew Foster was the District Attorney for Washington and Hancock counties in Maine. A Republican, he was defeated in his run for a third term in October 2022 perhaps because he was caught in a life during a candidate forum. He was asked if he had been investigated by Maine’s attorney general’s office and he said no, but he was investigated in 2017 and 2018.

809: Matthew Leveridge

Coercion, Improper Conduct or Comments, Sexual Harassment
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Matthew Leveridge is a Commonwealth Attorney for the 57th Circuit in Kentucky. This is in spite of serious misconduct. For example, he slept with a defendant he was prosecuting for drug offenses. When she got pregnant and told his wife, he tried to get the diversion program he offered her rescinded and send her to jail. He also had an affair with a juror.

796: Richard Fritz

Rape
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Richard Fritz was the State’s Attorney for St. Mary’s County. Maryland for seven terms though he finally was defeated in the Republican primary last year. His defeat is a surprise given his voters have known all along that he is a convicted rapist, participating in a three-on-one gang rape of a fifteen-year-old girl. He describes it as a statutory rape when he was a teenager. He was eighteen. He said “it happens all the time…Three of us had sex with her and that should speak for itself.”

757: Ken Kratz

Coercion, Sexual Harassment
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Ken Kratz was the District Attorney of Calumet County, in Wisconsin. He became infamous for his prosecution of Stephen Avery and his nephew Brendan Dassey in the second murder case after Avery was exonerated. This was covered in the Making a Murderer documentary. In spite of that, he kept his job, but he was forced out when people learned he coerced domestic violence survivors who needed him to prosecute their abusers.

554: Chad Michael Salsman

Extortion, Organizational Cover-Up, Sexual Assault, Trafficking
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Chad Michael Salsman was elected as District Attorney. He was an active volunteer at his church. A Republican, he had been a defense attorney. In 2019, he forced some of his clients to trade sex for legal representation. He was charged with sexual assault, indecent assault, witness intimidation, obstruction of justice, and promoting prostitution.

330: Seth Carey

Sexual Abuse, Sexual Assault, Uncategorized
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Seth Carey is a Maine Republican. He ran for DA for Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties after a judge found that he had made unwanted sexual advances three times to a woman living in his home. He had lost his license so would be not allowed to actually practice the job he was running for. Despite these facts, he won the Republican primary though he lost in the 2018 General Election though he won 42% of the vote even though he was facing criminal charges and not allowed to practice law.