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248: William “Wild Bill” Janklow

Child Rape
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In 1967, when Jancita Eagle Deer was fifteen she went to her high school counselor and told him that she had been raped by William Janklow, as he drove her home from babysitting . Allegedly, the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent the police investigation files to it Aberdeen office to keep the investigation away from Rosebud Sioux Tribal Court. In 1974, she petitioned the tribe to disbar Janklow from practicing law. The tribal court issued a misdemeanor arrest warrant for Janklow. but he did not live on the reservaton. No arrest was made. Janklow denied all allegations and no criminal charges were filed. He sued Newsweek and Peter Matthiessen who included the story in his book “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.” He lost both suits.

159: Ernie Konnyu

Sexual Harassment
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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
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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…

157: Scott DesJarlais

Familial Abuse & Violence, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Misconduct
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Scott DesJarlais is a Tennessee Republican U.S. representative who has been exposed as a hypocrite on abortion, supporting his ex-wife’s two abortions. But that’s not why he is on the list of Republican Sexual Predators. He had sex with his two of his patients. Also with three co-workers and a pharmaceutical rep. But let’s focus on the patients. He prescribed medication to one of them. They are dependent on him and he has a position of trust and power that he violated. So far with impunity.

154: Trent Franks

Sexual Harassment
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Arizona Rep. Trent Franks harassed his office staff asking them to be a surrogate to bear his child. He and his wife already had twins from surrogacy eight years earlier. I would feel more sympathetic if it weren’t that he retaliated when one woman rebuffed him and that another said he claimed to be in love with her. Also, having gone through surrogacy before, I would presume he knows it isn’t about asking your staff to let you get them pregnant.

124: Blake Farenthold

Sexual Harassment
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Blake Farenthold was a Texas representative to Congress. He was accused of sexual harassment and retaliation against the employee who complained. He is also accused of making inappropriate statements to other members of his official staff. They used taxpayer funds to pay for his $84,000 settlement with the staff member. Initially, he said he would…

123: Patrick Meehan

Sexual Harassment
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Patrick Meehan was a Congressman from Pennsylvania. He was accused by a former staffer of making unwanted romantic advances. He made a settlement with her and paid her $39,000 from his Congressional Office Fund. This all came to light while he was on the Ethics Committee gleefully investigating others for sexual harassment. Speaker Paul Ryan…

90: Joseph McDade

Indecent Exposure
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Joseph McDade was a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania from 1962 to 1998. In 2007, he was charged with indecent exposure after masturbating and exposing himself to people at a hotel. Naples Daily News: Former PA congressman to be arraigned for indecent exposure Pocono Record: Former Congressman McDade charged with exposing himself

24: Robert Bauman

Solicitation of a Minor, Trafficking
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Robert Bauman was a Republican congressional representative from Maryland. In 1980 he was arrested and charged with solicitation of a minor, a sixteen-year-old boy. He was allowed to plead innocent and have the charges dismissed in a plea deal that required him to enter a court-supervised rehabilitation program. He blamed his problems on alcohol. He…