Male staffer files $9 million lawsuit against Matt Schlapp for alleged ‘sexual battery’

A longtime Republican political aide in his 30’s is now suing Matt Schlappfor $9.4 million in a lawsuit that accuses the well-known head of the company that produces the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) of “aggressively fondling” the man’s “genital area in a sustained fashion” while the two were alone in a car, The New York Times reports. The Daily Beast reports the staffer is suing “for battery, defamation, and conspiracy.” “In a letter, the staffer’s attorney, Tim Hyland of Hyland Law, called Schlapp a ‘sexual predator,’” The Daily Beast adds. “Mr. Schlapp has not direc…

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