Posted on 10/31/2007 5:25:14 AM PDT by bshomoic
Cross-dressing state lawmaker blackmailed following late night tryst
Rob Kauder / Internet Content Manager, KXLY.com
Last updated: Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 06:57:17 PM
SPOKANE -- State Representative Richard Curtis says he's not gay, but police reports and court records indicate the Republican lawmaker from southwestern Washington dressed up in women's lingerie and met a Medical Lake man in a local erotic video store which led to consensual sex at a downtown hotel and a threat to expose Curtis' activities publicly.
A search warrant unsealed Tuesday morning disclosed that State Representative Richard Curtis (R - La Center) had sex in his room at the Davenport Tower with a man identified as Cody Castagna, 26, of Medical Lake, who he met at the Hollywood Erotic Boutique on October 26th.
Curtis, according to a search warrant unsealed Tuesday, went to the Hollywood Erotic Boutique on East Sprague on October 26th at approximately 12:45 a.m. The store clerk, who had talked with Curtis, referred to him as "The Cross-Dresser" and said that during their conversations he confirmed he was gay and was married with children at home.
During his visit to the video store Curtis was observed wearing women's lingerie while receiving oral sex from an unidentified man in one of the movie viewing booths inside the store.
Afterward he met Cody Castagna, and they talked about getting together at Curtis' hotel room to have sex. Curtis left Castagna his cellphone number and went to Northern Quest Casino and receiving a call from him around 3 a.m., and planned to get together at the hotel a short while later.
The two met at the Davenport Tower around 3:34 a.m. and police reports confirm Curtis and Castagna had anal intercourse after which Curtis fell asleep. Castagna, according to court records, then allegedly took Curtis' wallet out of his jacket pocket and left the room.
Around 7 a.m. he called Curtis and told him he knew he was a member of the Washington State House of Representatives and was married, that he had taken pictures of Curtis with a camera on his cellphone and he offered to return the wallet in exchange for $1,000. In police reports it is claimed that Curtis offered Castagna that sum of money in exchange for having unprotected anal intercourse.
Curtis, during an interview with a Spokane detective, claimed that he gave Castagna $100 for "gas money" and insisted that the money was not payment for sex. During that phone conversation he claimed he only had $200 and left the money in an envelope at the front desk at the Davenport Tower for Castagna in exchange for the return of his wallet.
The attempt to get his wallet back proved unsuccessful as Castagna called Curtis back later on the 26th and demanded the remaining $800 from him. Unbeknownst to Castagna at the time Curtis had already contacted Spokane police and a detective was present with Curtis when Castagna called again.
When he contacted police, Curtis told detectives he wanted to keep the incident quiet and didn't want to press charges against Castagna and that all he wanted was his wallet back.
During the call Castagna not only demanded $800 for the return of Curtis' wallet but also said the money would buy his silence, implying that without the money he would expose Curtis' gay lifestyle to his wife. Curtis admitted to police that if details of the incident became public he would have to tell his wife and would need to hire a divorce attorney.
Following the phone call arranging for the return of the wallet police officers set up surveillance of the location where Curtis' billfold was to be dropped and subsequently recovered it.
Castagna offered a completely different view of the events that happened on October 26th in several interviews with detectives. Castagna claimed that Curtis had met him at the Hollywood Erotic Boutique and later at Curtis' hotel room offered him $1,000 in exchange for sex, adding that while he was in Curtis' room at the Davenport Tower Curtis rented two XXX-rated gay movies for the two to watch. After the two had sex, Castagna claimed that Curtis gave him his wallet as collateral to hold on to until he gave him the remainder of the $1,000.
He also admitted to detectives he had threatening to publicly expose Curtis to his wife.
According to his personal page on MySpace.com early Tuesday morning, Castagna claims he's a 26-year-old Wyoming native now living in Medical Lake and working locally as a server. His MySpace page has since been set to private.
The Columbian newspaper in southwestern Washington where Rep. Curtis lives confirmed that Castagna has faced multiple charges in juvenile court in Spokane and King County involving assault, theft, burglary and malicious mischief and that in 2001 he pled guilty to a forgery charge as an adult and was sentenced to two months in jail followed by a year in community custody.
Aside from his statements to the police, Rep. Curtis' only public statement about the incident on October 26th was to The Columbian. He told the newspaper Monday he did not solicit anyone for sex, that he is not gay and that he got into this mess just trying to help someone out.
This must happen all the time on the Democrat side. Is it being covered up bt the press? Even if it was reported, I’m afraid most Dems would just say “So What”.
Strictly ANOTHER case of “I PLED GUILTY BECAUSE I FIGURED IT WOULD GO AWAY”.
Certainly wouldn’t be a story if “R” weren’t involved.
If there is a bright side, it's that he was exposed now instead of a couple weeks before the election as--I suspect--the Clintonian blackmail squad was planning.
You can be a drunk kennedy and try to run over a police officer- make News?
You can hold a democratic convention -as police officers bring in the flag, they are spit upon- make News?
You can be an Al Bore and pass an internet law to NOT collect information from juvenilies- then refuse to shut down Nambla’s website- Make News? (BTW-they closed the site a couple of days before GW took office)
The MSM has 1, and only 1 goal- to destroy America-it’s laws,it’s Christian heritage,and the law abiding citizens that love the U.S.A.
A FAKE republican-? That is news to the MSM
Take note, RINO-rudy.
Remember the "time bombs" Podesta boasted they had left for the incoming Bush administration? IMO some of the blackmail product they develop is being saved as time bombs to blow Republicans out of the water in the '08 election ala Foley.
HA!!
Haven't you heard?
These squirrels don't quit anymore after something like this happens.
Nope.
Bet this guy in particular is out right now, shopping.
...for a new *outfit*. ;^)
You might be right .. this one may have been a setup (I don't think Craig was a setup though). Problem here, is that they need lying, perverted, Republicans in order to make this scheme work. So I am gonna point my finger at the lying, perverted, Republican .. and hold HIM responsible.
Perfect! He could ride shotgun on the Rudy ticket!
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Of course he's not gay. All heterosexuals do this kind of thing, don't they?
LOL. YAnGC
(Yet Another not Gay Congresscritter). LOL
Only the gay heterosexuals.
FWIW my GUESS is that this guy got way too reckless and got exposed before the bad guys wanted to out him.
Also, for what it's worth (I don't pretend to have inside info), I think the Craig thing WAS a set up, but it was a set up of a guilty guy and it was planned for a lot later.
The Craig thing came up right after the Hsu story started getting attention. IMO Hillary wasted an election grenade to blow away Hsu headlines. Just my opinion, but, if two of their targets are outed EARLY, that's good for us at least timing wise. I just worry how many more there are in limbo.
Okay, if you’re going to be like that, you’re just asking for trouble.
Nope, not gay. He’s a sexual degenerate. He can always change parties and run for his seat as a dem. Up in WA he will probably win in a landslide.
They are actually doing us a great favor by reminding us that party affiliation is no guarantor of good character. Too many blind patriots of the Republican Party around who don't seem to get that.
Degeneracy is Satanic in origin (think Jimmy Swaggert and his falling down, the Catholic Priests fallen down). The campaign is to portray degeneracy as just an alternate way of living, unless it can be amplified in someone preaching the Gospel. Ted Haggard can tell us a lot about that! Oh how much damage and how many souls can be swept away if Satan can get a proclaimer to fall down. That the democrap party uses this degeneracy to empower themselves politically is no surprise, disgusting of democrats but not surprising ... they’ve been empowering their party with the slaughter of innocent unborn for decades!
Nope. Just has a wiiiiide stance.
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