Free Republic

BATH, N.Y. (AP) — Sealed divorce records alleging a Republican candidate for Congress once threatened his wife at gunpoint were obtained by his Democratic opponent’s campaign manager, a prosecutor said Thursday. On instructions from Democrat Samara Barend’s campaign manager, a college student went to the Steuben County Clerk’s office in September to get “publicly available information” about Republican state Sen. John “Randy” Kuhl, county District Attorney John Tunney said. Court-sealed documents detailing Kuhl’s divorce in 2000 were included inadvertently, and the student, Andrew Rachlin, 22, copied the papers and turned them over to Barend campaign manager Jonah Siegellak, said Tunney,...