The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida who was ousted earlier this month amid a criminal investigation will not be charged with sexual battery, the Sarasota Police Department said on Friday. But the authorities will seek to charge him with video voyeurism, a felony. Christian Ziegler, the ousted chairman, recorded a sexual encounter…
Details of a sexual assault allegation against the chairman of the Florida Republican Party in an affidavit from state authorities are fueling turmoil within the party. The affidavit recounts that a woman says that the chairman, Christian Ziegler, assaulted her in her apartment in October. It was filed in Florida court as part of a…
A consulting firm that has worked extensively with Nikki Haley and her political action committee is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who says that an executive sexually assaulted her, and that other executives failed to take appropriate action and retaliated against her in response. The firm, ColdSpark, helped Ms. Haley start her advocacy…
Theodore McCarrick, the highest-ranking Catholic cleric in the United States to face charges in the church’s ongoing sexual abuse crisis, is not competent to stand trial, a judge in Massachusetts ruled. The disgraced former cardinal, who is 93, was declared unfit by a Dedham District Court judge on Wednesday. Mr. McCarrick faced three counts of…
President Biden is set to give final approval on Friday to the biggest reshaping in generations of the country’s Uniform Code of Military Justice, stripping commanders of their authority over cases of sexual assault, rape and murder to ensure prosecutions that are independent of the chain of command. By placing his signature on a far-reaching…