Posted on 07/03/2018 12:30:59 PM PDT by Eddie01
Full Title: Powerful GOP Rep. Jim Jordan accused of turning blind eye to sexual abuse as Ohio State wrestling coach
Rep. Jim Jordan, the powerful Republican congressman from Ohio, is being accused by former wrestlers he coached more than two decades ago at Ohio State University of failing to stop the team doctor from molesting them and other students.
The university announced in April that it was investigating accusations that Dr. Richard Strauss, who died in 2005, abused team members when he was the team doctor from the mid-1970s to late 1990s.
Jordan, who was assistant wrestling coach at the university from 1986 to 1994, has repeatedly said he knew nothing of the abuse until former students began speaking out this spring, and continued to deny it on Tuesday. His denials, however, have been met with skepticism and anger from some former members of the wrestling team.
Sex abuse was 'common knowledge' Rep. Jordan ignored, say Ohio State wrestlers JUL.03.201804:07 Three former wrestlers told NBC News that it was common knowledge that Strauss showered regularly with the students and inappropriately touched them during appointments, and said it would have been impossible for Jordan to be unaware; one wrestler said he told Jordan directly about the abuse.
Former head coach Russ Hellickson, Jordan's mentor, said in a recent video — made by Mike DiSabato, a former wrestler — that Hellickson had told Strauss that he was being too "hands on” with students.
DiSabato, whose allegations against Strauss prompted Ohio State to open its investigation, called Jordan a “liar.”
“I considered Jim Jordan a friend,” DiSabato said. “But at the end of the day, he is absolutely lying if he says he doesn’t know what was going on.”
DiSabato said he reached out to Jordan this year, before going to the university, to tell Jordan that he planned to go public with his allegations. Jordan told him to “please leave me out of it,” DiSabato said. “He asked me not to get him involved.”
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Hopefully, not too well. Never know what a rabid liberal is carrying. ;)
Not for Congresmen. You can't even email a Congressman. The only way you can contact a Congressman ( unless you have his private email ) is through the webpage on his House account. They are not read by people. They pull out keywords from the subject and they send you a form letter. Try it sometime. There are staffers and then there are "staffers". They said they contacted the office, which means it probably went to the lower level staffers - the interns, not his close staffers ( the ones who get calls from other Congressman, the WH, etc.). Who knows if this intern even logged the call let alone passed the message on. There is no proof that Jordan ever saw the message. For them to call him a liar without proof that he ever saw a message is not fair. If it were a competent law firm, they would have sent him the request on the firms letterhead via registered mail. Then they would have at least a little credibility in their claim.
And the primary unanswered question is probably whether this was initiated by Democrats or GOPe. I'd guess GOPe.
He has only recently been contacted and it seems to be a set up. There is no proof that he was contacted in the late 1980s and 90s. You are misreading the article,
The law firm handling the law suit, Perkins Coie, is the law firm that handled the Steele Dossier for Hillary Clinton. It stinks to high heaven.
That’s why they call them grapplers.
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