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FILE – This October 22, 2015 file photo shows United States Representative Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Capitol Hill. Two men who were fighting at Ohio State University in the 1990s said that Jordan was not honest when he said that he was unaware of the allegations. Dr. Richard Strauss was fumbling with the wrestlers, NBC reported on Tuesday, July 3, 2018. 14 sports at Ohio State reported alleged badual misconduct of Strauss, whose death in 2005 at the age of 67 years was decreed a suicide. The spokesman for Jordan said in a statement that the congressman had never seen or heard of abuse or had been abused when he was an badistant wrestling coach at the ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Ohio State. (Carolyn Kaster, File / Associated Press)
by Kantele Franko and Kevin Freking | AP 9 July at 20h05
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A vigilante group and former special adviser to President Barack Obama demand an ethical review of US representative Jim Jordan even as former colleagues support his statements that Some former wrestlers in the late 1980s and early 1990s declared that they had been abused by the Richard Strauss team doctor and that Jordan knew then that he was in the same position. abuse was a coach badistant. Jordan, founder of the conservative Freedom Caucus and potential candidate for the Speaker of the House, denies him and said he and other coaches would have reported any alleged abuse brought to their attention.
Democracy Group 21 and former White House ethics officer Norman Eisen I want to know if the Republican of Ohio has made false statements about it. The request sent Monday to the Office of Congressional Ethics indicated that issues of dishonesty could discredit the House in violation of the rules of the House.
Several former wrestlers have said in recent days that Jordan must be aware of these abuses.
But Monday, six former Ohio wrestling coaches defended Jordan in a joint statement that none of them knew about the wrestlers' abuse.
"The well-being of the student-athletes was of our concern.If we had heard about abuse, we would have talked," said the statement of former head coach Russ Hellickson and former badistant coaches Dave Ruckman, Rex Holman, Ken Chertow, Myron Kharchilava and Kenny Ramsey Jr.
They immediately wonder if, like Jordan, they plan to discuss with Seattle-based Perkins Coie independent investigators who are examining allegations against the doctor who died today and what the university knew about the allegations.
Holman said that he was not interviewed, and he would not say he will speak with the investigators. A spokesperson who published the statement of former coaches did not immediately answer a question about whether others were considering speaking to investigators.
In an individual statement accompanied by the group's commentary, Hellickson repeated a week-long that seems to offer a more nuanced view of the allegations: "Never, while Jim Jordan was my coach at the Ohio State, none of us "Ignored the abuses of our wrestlers." Hellickson did not return the messages left by the Associated Press.
Jordan told Fox News on Friday night that "conversations in a locker room are very different from people talking about abuse."
He said that no one had ever reported abuse to him.
Andy Geiger, a former sports director from Ohio, said Monday that he did not remember complaints about a doctor's badual misconduct. 39, team with athletes. Geiger told AP in a phone interview that he was recalling some concerns about voyeurism in the showers at Larkins Hall in the university, but nothing specifically about the doctor.
Geiger, 79, now lives near Seattle. to be informed of Strauss's alleged badault, but that could have happened. Geiger says that he does not remember Strauss well.
The Third Republican of the House of Lords Expressed Support for Jordan
Steve Scalise, GOP bad from Louisiana, always said he was honest. He says that he is confident that he will "stand up for his athletes, just as he has always stood for what is right."
The Scalise statement came as key members of the Freedom Caucus also supported Jordan.
Ohio State has declared allegations Up to now, men from 14 sports have been recruited, as well as Strauss's work in student health services and his off-campus medical clinic
Strauss died in 2005 and was declared suicidal
. He learns the allegations from reports and cooperates with the independent investigation of the school, according to a family statement over the weekend.
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Mitch Stacy, badociate writer at Columbus, contributed to this report. Freking reported from Washington. Follow the journalists on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/kantele10 and https://twitter.com/APKFreking.
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