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New York [Republican] Assemblyman Chris Ortloff, a major figure in the 1980 Olympics, was released from prison after being convicted of trying to meet 11 and 12 year old sisters in a motel room.
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Alaska’s former acting attorney general [Republican] appears in court on charges of sexual abuse of a minor.
Alaska’s former acting attorney general appeared in an Anchorage courtroom Thursday for a hearing on three felony sexual abuse of a minor charges, accusations that prompted his resignation two years ago.
Clyde “Ed” Sniffen, 59 — who served as acting attorney general for roughly five months, from August 2020 to January 2021 — is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl he coached on an Anchorage high school mock trial team in 1991.
At an evidentiary hearing Thursday, Sniffen sat at the defense table on the third floor of the Nesbett Courthouse, watching as two detectives and Nikki White, the woman who came forward publicly in 2021 with the abuse allegations, answered questions about the case.
Sniffen had been selected by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to serve as attorney general permanently but abruptly resigned at the end of January 2021 as the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica were preparing an article detailing allegations of sexual misconduct with the 17-year-old girl that had unfolded three decades earlier.
White came forward with the allegations after hearing that Sniffen was expected to permanently remain the state’s top prosecutor. She said Sniffen was a coach of the West Anchorage High School mock trial competition team while she was a student there in 1991. He was 27 at the time.
Her relationship with Sniffen became sexual during a trip to New Orleans for a mock trial competition when she was 17, White has said. The sexual relationship continued for several years after they returned to Anchorage, she told reporters.
During Thursday’s hearing, Anchorage Superior Court Judge Erin Marston listened as Sniffen’s attorney, Jeffrey Robinson, and special prosecutor Gregg Olson questioned White and the two detectives involved in the case, one back in the 1990s and the other more recently.
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Seventeen years old sounds a lot different than two 9 year old adopted boys that they groomed and pimped out.