Republican state Rep., Scott Muschany, charged with assaulting teen

St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports

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  JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri state Rep. Scott Muschany, R-Frontenac, was indicted today in connection with a reported sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl on May 17, the day after this year’s Legislative session ended.
  
  The alleged victim is the daughter of a state employee. The girl’s mother and Muschany -– who is married and has two children -- were romantically involved, the woman said.
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  In 2006, Muschany was a co-sponsor of legislation that toughened sex offender laws.
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GOP Senator Ted Stevens Indicted On Seven Criminal Charges

Jul 29 - Stevens was charged with concealing more than $250,000 of gifts, including home renovations, from an Alaska oil services company.The indictment does not restrict Stevens' ability to vote in the Senate, speak on the Senate floor or participate in committee work.



Sen. Ted Stevens, the nation's longest-serving Republican senator and a major figure in Alaska politics since before statehood, was indicted Tuesday on seven counts of failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in services from an oil services company that helped renovate his home.

The first sitting U.S. senator to face federal indictment since 1993, Stevens has been dogged by an investigation into his home renovation project in Alaska and his dealings with wealthy oil contractors.

Flashback:
SERIES OF TUBES: Ted Stevens describes the intricacies of the internet.

GOP operative, Peter Hong, nabbed in prostitution sting

From TwinCities.com

A two-day prostitution sting in St. Paul netted 35 men, including a longtime Republican operator in Minnesota politics.

Peter Hong, 41, of Minneapolis, was one of 19 men picked up Wednesday afternoon after police say he responded to an ad for sex put out in newspapers and online by the St. Paul Police Department's vice squad.

He was booked into the Ramsey County Jail at about 5 p.m. the same day on suspicion of engaging in prostitution.

The Carleton grad was a campaign spokesman for Gov. Tim Pawlenty in 2002 and congressional press secretary to Sen. Rod Grams, R-Minn., for much of the 1990s. He also served as the Bush-Cheney Minnesota campaign spokesman in 2004. His most recent political stint was as presidential campaign spokesman for Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

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Robert Novak hits Pedestrian with his car and keeps on driving

July 23, 2008. Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., on Wednesday morning.

"I didn't know I hit him. I feel terrible," a shaken Novak told reporters from Politico and WJLA as he was returning to his car. "He's not dead, that's the main thing."

Novak kept on driving after hitting the man. He stopped only when a bicyclist yelled at him and said, "You hit someone." The bicyclist, David Bono, says - "black Corvette convertible with top closed plowed into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed onto the windshield."

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Robert Novak is the same conservative columnist who leaked the identity of the covert CIA officer Valerie Plame in his newspaper column.

In August 2004, after other journalists had reported on it, Novak admitted that his son, Alex Novak, is the Director of Marketing for the Swift Boat Veterans' publisher, Regnery Publishing. At the time he said that he didn't "think it relevant." Two months later Salon.com reported that Regnery's owner is also the publisher of Novak's own US$297 (annual rate) newsletter and that Novak is on the board of a foundation whose chief holdings are the stock of Regnery's parent company.

Swift Vets and POWs for Truth, formerly known as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT), was a political group (527 group) of American Swift boat veterans and former prisoners of war of the Vietnam War, formed during the 2004 presidential election campaign for the purpose of smear John Kerry's candidacy for the presidency. As of 2008, the group has ceased operations.