The chief accuser of Representative Jim Jordan about the Ohio State fight charges is jailed

Jan. 8, 2019 / 01:07 GMT

From Corky Siemaszko

A former wrestler from Ohio State University who accused his former assistant coach, current congressman Jim Jordan, and l & ## The doctor of the team was reportedly the victim of an alleged assault against sportsmen, after complaining of having harassed on the phone a former football star of the university, a relative of Jordan.

Wrestler Mike DiSabato was arrested with a warrant arrest he went to court in Columbus after missing a Friday hearing date.

DiSabato, 50, told NBC News that his arrest was due to a bureaucratic snafu because neither he nor his lawyer knew that they were. DiSabato, of Dublin, Ohio, told NBC News Friday that she had learned from a local newspaper that a warrant had been issued against her arrest.

DiSabato's complaints about the late Richard Strauss prompted the state of Ohio to open an investigation into decades-old allegations that the former doctor of the team would have molested some wrestlers. university.

Representative of a district of north-central Ohio, coach in the state of Ohio from 1986 to 1994. He has repeatedly stated that he He was unaware of Strauss' allegations of abuse against student wrestlers, claiming that he had not even heard of any locker or.

Among the wrestlers who spoke at NBC News about allegations of abuse committed by Strauss, some agree with DiSabato to say that it is hard to believe that Jordan was unaware of the alleged behavior of doctor of the team. But others have defended Jordan, saying that he knew he would act.

The university's investigation into the charges against Strauss became a national story on July 3 when DiSabato and several other former wrestlers from the state of Ohio declared to NBC News that Jordan was lying when he insisted that he was unaware of the alleged aggression.

Two days later, Matthew Finkes, a former football star at the university, filed a lawsuit with the Columbus Police Department for harassing DiSabato's phone, according to the archive. 19659007] "Michael H. DiSabato knowingly contacted Matthew S. Finkes and was told not to call," says the complaint.

Finkes, who is raising money for the Wexner Medical Center in the state of Ohio – is hosting a local sports radio show, stating in the complaint that he had told DiSabato by mail July 3 "to stop all communication".

He did not indicate in the complaint how DiSabato had called him.

DiSabato stated in interviews with NBC News and in an email that he had sent an independent law firm investigating Strauss's allegations for the state of Ohio that Finkes had harassed him before publicly disclose his allegations against Jordan.

Finkes publicly accused him, in a July 12 radio interview, of engaging in a "paid and political job" against Ohio State and Jordan.

"Please note that this email is the first of several that I will send you. Mr. DiSabato wrote to his law firm that "the deliberate and deliberate harassment of harassment and retaliation by University employees".

Finkes responded to an email sent Monday by NBC News: "Thank you for reaching out but I'll comment at that time as long as the case is still active. As I told the AP reporter, I simply wish Mr. DiSabato to leave me alone. "

Finkes told the Wall Street Journal on July 10 that Jordan was his first cousin and had recruited him to fight at Ohio State, though he

" I would entrust to him my life and that of my children and the idea that it would someday put me in a situation where I would be threatened by a sexual predator is so outside the realm of

NBC News also solicited information about DiSabato from the Jordan spokesman and a Virginia-based public relations firm recruited by the Congressman's campaign to handle communications related to Strauss's allegations