CA GOP sex scandal

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-12-09 12:02am

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Former GOP aide fesses up to 'imaginary' teen trystsJason Rhyne
Published: Thursday December 6, 2007

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Defense attorney had claimed boy made it up; said client was 'conservative guy, caring'
A former GOP congressional aide has pleaded guilty to molesting two male teens, including the 13-year-old son of a family with whom the staffer lived while working on Capitol Hill.

37-year-old Jeffrey Ray Nielsen, who has worked previously for Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), as well the Republican chair of California's Orange County, agreed to two felony counts of lewd acts upon a child, reports the Associated Press. A jury had deadlocked at an earlier trial this year -- in which Nielsen was accused of engaging in sexual acts with a 14-year-old boy he met on the internet -- and prosecutors were prepared to bring additional charges in a retrial.

The plea deal is expected to bring a sentence of three years in state prison, according to the Los Angeles Times.

"Prosecutors contended that Nielsen had met the 14-year-old victim on a gay Internet site and driven the boy to his Ladera Ranch condominium, where the two engaged in oral sex," the Times reports. "The boy, a high school freshman, told a friend who alerted school authorities." After his arrest in 2003, police found "thousands of images" of child pornography on his home and work computers.

Following his initial mistrial, and a subsequent confession, prosecutors also "filed charges involving a 13-year-old they said Nielsen had molested repeatedly while living at the boy's family's Virginia home in 1994," according to the paper.

As reported by California's Orange County Weekly during Nielsen's first trial, the defendant's legal team had originally argued that the 14-year-old boy's claims of a sexual relationship were imaginary.

"Did Mr. Nielsen and Mr. Doe meet? Yeah, they did. Did they go to his house? Yeah, they did. But it's a hopeful leap to believe that they must have had sex," said Nielsen defense attorney Paul Meyer in February, according to the Weekly. Claiming the boy "built a fantasy," Myer warned the jury not to be misled. "Jeff Nielsen is a conservative guy, responsible, caring and very family-oriented. He cares about people."

The Weekly also claims some vindication in seeing Nielsen cop to a plea agreement. In a Tuesday story, the paper's R. Scott Moxley writes that Nielsen's retrial was founded on charges "based partly on the Weekly's 2006 exposes detailing Nielsen's relationship with the Virginia seventh-grader. Meyer, who has specialized in representing pedophiles, angrily claimed the public couldn’t trust this 'tabloid' paper's reporting."

A Democratic aide to Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) was arrested last week for allegedly attempting to arrange a sexual rendezvous with an FBI informant posing as a 13-year-old boy. James Michael McHaney, who worked as a scheduler for Cantwell, was fired from the job on Friday and subsequently charged with violating the Attempted Child Exploitation Act.

Read the Orange County Weekly's full account of the case here.

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2007-12-09 01:00am

This is getting beyond pathetic. Are there any straight perverts in the GOP anymore?

I wish the Democrats had a good propaganda network. I would love to see a national campaign listing all these sex scandals in the party of anti-gay "family values".

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-12-09 01:14am

well considering how bad they are, their stance sorta makes sense. They think all other folks hate civil liberties, and are child rapin pervs, because they are....

kinda self loathing thing, like how Hitler was half jewish...

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2007-12-09 01:41am

Johonebesus wrote:This is getting beyond pathetic. Are there any straight perverts in the GOP anymore?

I know. Man, I've got to start trolling these campus conservative meetings.

The Article wrote:"Did Mr. Nielsen and Mr. Doe meet? Yeah, they did. Did they go to his house? Yeah, they did. But it's a hopeful leap to believe that they must have had sex,"

Emphasis mine. That's an... odd choice of language there, Mr. Meyer.

Meyer, who has specialized in representing pedophiles, angrily claimed the public couldn’t trust this 'tabloid' paper's reporting.

And an even more bizarre choice of careers. I wonder if he said "I want to defend child molesters when I grow up" in kindergarten. Although I guess someone has to do it.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-12-09 09:32am

I swear, if I hear a Republican mention Clinton's blowjob one more time...

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-12-09 09:51am

I'm starting to think that the GOP isn't pissed at Clinton because he got a BJ but because he got one from a woman. Clearly if he had been sucked off by a guy it would have been all right.

Ryan Thunder · Post by **Ryan Thunder** » 2007-12-09 11:58am

One must wonder why this doesn't happen to the Democrats. Like, ever...

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2007-12-09 01:40pm

This reminds me of a news story I heard a few weeks ago, where a prison chaplain got busted for seducing female convicts. People were THRILLED to find out it was adult women.