NBC News - Right around the time Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, was shedding his suit jacket and preparing to grill witnesses Tuesday at the impeachment hearing, a mobile billboard truck began circling the U.S. Capitol and calling for a congressional investigation into a sex abuse scandal that has been dogging him back home.
The video playing on the billboard took Ohio State University to task for failing to stop staff physician Dr. Richard Strauss from molesting hundreds of male athletes and other students at a time when Jordan was an assistant wrestling coach at the school.
“Ohio State officials knew about Richard Strauss for nearly two decades,” the message flashed on the screen. “20 years later, sexual abuse still is unreported. This isn’t just a Strauss problem, this is a problem at The Ohio State University. Congress, it’s time to investigate.”
....Strauss, who died in 2005, worked at OSU from 1978 through 1998. Jordan coached at the school from 1986 to 1994.
Jordan became ensnared in the Strauss scandal in July 2018 when three former wrestlers told NBC News that the future congressman was aware that the doctor was preying on them but failed to protect them.
An arch-conservative and leading member of the House Freedom Caucus, Jordan has repeatedly denied any knowledge of what Strauss was doing. He has called the allegations against him politically motivated.
Jordan recently repeated that denial after NBC News reported that a former referee said in a lawsuit against Ohio State that Strauss masturbated in front of him in a shower after a wrestling match and that he reported the encounter directly to Jordan and then-head coach Russ Hellickson. Jordan is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
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I thought this was the only side there was.
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