Republican congressman denies he ignored Ohio State sexual abuse claims

Jim Jordan, who previously worked on school’s wrestling team, criticizes alleged victims of squad’s doctor

The Republican congressman Jim Jordan denied accusations that he ignored claims of sexual misconduct at a former university job and attacked some of the alleged victims for presenting “bogus” allegations as part of a “vendetta”.

Jordan was on the defense on Fox News on Friday night following a series of public accusations that when he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State University in the 1990s, he was aware of allegations of sexual misconduct by the team doctor, Richard Strauss, but did nothing about it.

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