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731: Tom McCullagh

Improper Conduct or Comments
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Tom McCullagh was a Republican primary candidate for a state House seat. However, he withdrew when the details of an investigation into his alleged grooming of an underage girl became public. A person reported that McCullagh gave the girl a bottle of vodka. When the police tried to extract the child’s cellphone data, they could not as the data was corrupted. As such, the thought the only probably charge was contributing to the delinquency of a minor. McCullagh was not questioned because the family did not want to pursue the matter.

698: Jim Maloof

Sexual Harassment
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Jim Maloof was the Mayor of Peoria. The city settled a sexual harassment suit after his secretary accused him of unwanted kisses and hugs and of making inappropriately personal lewd comments. In 1993, 37 female city employees complained to the Illinois Department of Human Rights and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that Maloof and other officials had engaged in sexual discrimination and harassment.

559: Mathew Capsel

Familial Abuse & Violence
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Mathew Capsel is an insurrectionist. He was on arrested on January 6th and two days later violated a protection order filed by a former romantic partner after he was violent. He has defied protection orders multiple times. He was also arrested for batter in 2013 for an incident where he allegedly hit a woman 3 to 4 times. He was not prosecuted for this.

466: Michael Ferro

Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Michael Ferro was Chairman of TRONC, the Chicago Tribune publishing company and a big Republican donor. He was forced out after allegations of sexual misconduct were published by Fortune magazine. Two different women recounted seeking an investment in their firms when he made physical advances on them, forcible kissing one and groping another’s breast.

441: Nick Hermann

Retaliation, Sexual Harassment
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Nick Hermann was the County Prosecutor in Vanderburgh County, Illinois until he lost the Republican primary in May 2022. A likely contribution to his loss was the sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought against him that he settled. That and the $10,000 in controversial expenditures for lingerie and expensive lunches on his county credit card.

432: Gary Wiggins

Child Abuse, Trafficking
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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.

430: Paxton Singer

Sexual Misconduct, Solicitation of a Minor
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Paxton Singer was an anti-gay youth minister at Harvest Bible Chapel in Aurora, Illinois. He was convicted of disorderly conduct for sending text messages to a minor. He was originally accused of soliciting a minor but was acquitted of that while found guilty for texting him about his underwear and sleepovers, texts that alarmed the…

347: John Anthony

Sexual Assault
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John Anthony was a former Republican Illinois state representative. He served three years before resigning to take a $10k/month job at the Illinois Department of Corrections. He worked there just a few months as he was fired after a staff party where he groped and assaulted several women. One of the incidents was caught on video. He was fired.

322: Nick Sauer

Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images
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Nick Sauer is a Republican politician who once served on the Lake County Board in Illinois and represented the 51st district in the Illinois House of Representatives. He was a member of the House Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Task Force. I guess they wanted to hear from the predator’s side. He decided to post nude pictures of his ex-girlfriend. He also confessed to catfishing using her nude pics. He resigned immediately.