People who want to run for Congress in the future often start trying to establish contacts in DC beforehand. And, he ran for the Illinois House in 1980 and lost, then in 1981, he won a seat vacated by a terminally ill legislator.
So politics was obviously on his mind in the late '70s. At present, not a lot has been established or refuted concerning this very new story, but with what is already known, it's pretty knee-jerk to dismiss anything out-of-hand until much more investigation has taken place.
But the fact that Bucceroni has already tried to connect his own abusers to Jerry Sandusky and a Nebraska credit union and who knows what else doesn't make him the most reliable of accusers.