Update: criminal complaint filed against ex-@Harris County Repug chairman's Woodfill law firm

[Julian Englis]

Last edited Mon Nov 12, 2018, 05:32 PM - Edit history (3)

UPDATE: A criminal complaint filed against ex-@HarrisCountyRP chairman Jared Woodfill accuses his firm of taking more than $300K from a client's trust account.

It's not clear if this is related to today's raid at his office.

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Houston Police are apparently searching the law office of Jared Woodfill, the former chairman of the Harris County Republican Party.

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Harris County DA spokesman just confirmed that officers have a warrant.

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[Gothmog]

1. This will be fun to watch

Jared is an asshole

[Tom Rivers]

2. Unfamiliar with this story

I know they're all crooks, but what's he done?

[Roland99]

3. Tied to a defamation/molestation lawsuit from late last year?

[Julian Englis]

4. Woodfill's partner/mentor/RNJ Pressler was accused of sexually assaulting men

More men accuse former Texas judge, Baptist leader of sexual misconduct

The list of men accusing a former Texas state judge and leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention of sexual misconduct continues to grow.

In separate court affidavits filed this month, two men say Paul Pressler molested or solicited them for sex in a pair of incidents that span nearly 40 years. Those accusations were filed as part of a lawsuit filed last year by another man who says he was regularly raped by Pressler.

Pressler’s newest accusers are another former member of a church youth group and a lawyer who worked for Pressler’s former law firm until 2017.

Toby Twining, 59, now a New York musician, was a teenager in 1977 when he says Pressler grabbed his penis in a sauna at River Oaks Country Club, according to an affidavit filed in federal court. At that time, Pressler was a youth pastor at Bethel Church in Houston; he was ousted from that position in 1978 after church officials received information about “an alleged incident,” according to a letter introduced into the court file.

[MagickMuffin]

15. Here's the judge

[struggle4progress]

5. "Holy shit! Is it a conspiracy by the Drag Queen Story Hour folk?"

[malaise]

6. The bible study club

Good effin' grief!

[vlyons]

7. Southern Baptists have sooooooooo many closet problems

Why can't he just go to a gay bar or bathhouse and pick up an adult consentual hook-up like an honest person does? Never mind that was a rhetorical question.

[gratuitous]

9. It's complicated

But this is a predictable outcome when a person's inmost being is so at odds with the values and mores they have internalized. I've read a few autobiographies of men who fought their sexual orientation with everything they had. They're survivors, so you know how the books generally come out. But the journey to get to some semblance of wholeness is just heart-breaking.

[Dem_4_Life]

8. Oh WOW that is interesting.

[malaise]

10. Could be this as well

http://www.divorcereality.com/was-a-jury-verdict-in-a-million-dollar-child-custody-case-tossed-out-because-of-politics/

[bobbieinok]

11. Assoc of Paul Pressler, charged with molesting men.

Pressler a leader in RW takeover of SoBapt convention

[vsrazdem]

12. Cover up

Brooks Schott, 27, now a lawyer in Washington state, says in an affidavit that he resigned his position at Pressler’s former law firm after Pressler in 2016 invited Schott to get into a hot tub with him naked. He also accuses Jared Woodfill, Pressler’s longtime law partner and the head of the Harris County Republican Party until 2014, of failing to prevent Pressler’s sexual advances toward him and others, which Schott says were well-known among the firm, the documents state.

[Julian Englis]

13. Looks like it's about plain, old embezzlement. n/t

[Sneederbunk]

14. Probably just a run of the mill search of a Repug operative.

It is for our protection. Kind of like airport searches.

[Gothmog]

16. This will be fun to watch

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