Bloomberg Law
July 18, 2018, 10:45 PM UTC

Perkins Coie Interviews Rep. Jim Jordan in Ohio State Probe

Stephanie Russell-Kraft
Stephanie Russell-Kraft

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan met this week with a Perkins Coie attorney hired by Ohio State University to investigate allegations that a team doctor sexually abused wrestlers there decades ago when he was on the coaching staff, the Republican lawmaker said July 18.

Two proposed class action lawsuits by former wrestlers against the university allege that school officials must have been aware of the abuse in the 1980s and 90s and never reported it.

One complaint quotes several former wrestlers who spoke out publicly, asserting that Jordan “was also aware” of the alleged abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss but that ...

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