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Brian Nieves

Victorious GOPer Allegedly Flashes Gun At Defeated Rival's Staffer Over Sex Allegations

Megan Carpentier | August 13, 2010, 5:21PM


Brian Nieves (R), State Senate Candidate in Missouri, and Shawn Bell (inset)

The closing days of a GOP primary race for state Senate between state Rep. Brian Nieves and Washington mayor Richard Stratman in Missouri got especially heated and ugly -- but accusations that Nieves committed adultery and paid alleged rapist Rod Jetton as a campaign consultant were nothing compared to what has happened since election day. Nieves, now the GOP nominee, stands accused of physically assaulting Stratman's campaign manager, Shawn Bell, threatening him with a gun, forcing him to strip and threatening the manager's boss.

Bell is seeking a restraining order; Nieves denies the allegations.

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Topics: Brian Nieves, Missouri, Richard Stratman, Rod Jetton, Shawn Bell

Rod Jetton

Report: FBI Investigating Rod Jetton In Strip Club Bill Probe

Justin Elliott | February 2, 2010, 3:34PM


Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton

Rod Jetton, the former Missouri pol charged with assault after a November sexual encounter, is now reportedly under scrutiny in an FBI probe into the killing of a bill to regulate strip clubs.

Details of the pay-to-play probe -- including a grand jury interview with the legislation's sponsor today -- have been bubbling up for a while. The Kansas City Star first reported late last month that Jetton is under scrutiny.

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Topics: Bob Johnson, Rod Jetton, Strip Clubs

Rod Jetton

Police Report On Jetton Incident Released

Zachary Roth | December 10, 2009, 1:35PM


Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton

New information has emerged about the allegations that led to a felony assault charge being filed against a former top Missouri GOP pol, in connection with a November sexual encounter.

An incident report, taken by police a day and a half after the alleged assault took place, lists three "offenses" alleged against Rod Jetton, who until last year was Speaker of the House: second degree assault, rape, and felonious restraint.

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Rod Jetton

Jetton Fought To Keep Ban On Gay Sex, Calling It 'Deviate Sexual Intercourse'

Zachary Roth | December 9, 2009, 9:56AM


Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton

Rod Jetton, the former Missouri House Speaker, fired a state lawmaker from his committee chairmanship in 2007 because the lawmaker had changed a bill in order to end a state ban on gay sex -- or what Jetton called "deviate sexual intercourse."

Jetton was charged with felony assault Monday after a girlfriend alleged that he had beaten and choked her during a recent sexual encounter, in which she failed to use a mutually agreed upon "safe word." The woman also suggested that Jetton may have slipped a date-rape drug into her glass of wine, causing her to lose consciousness. In the wake of the charges, Jetton announced that the political consulting firm he has run since leaving office last year would close its doors.

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Rod Jetton

Former House Speaker Charged With Felony Assault After Sexual Encounter

Zachary Roth | December 8, 2009, 3:24PM


Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton

The former speaker of the Missouri House has been charged with a felony after what looks like a bout of sado-masochistic sex that went way too far.

Details are still unconfirmed, we should note. But a woman appears to have suggested to police that Rod Jetton, a Republican who now works as a political consultant, may have slipped something into her drink, then beat her up during sex, after she failed to use the safe word they had agreed upon as a signal to calm things down.

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Topics: Rod Jetton, Sex

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