- Officials connected to the powerful Conservative Political Action Conference reportedly knew about past accusations of sexual misconduct by Chairman Matt Schlapp but failed to investigate them, according to an amended sexual battery-and-defamation lawsuit filed against the Schlapp earlier this year.
- One alleged incident was that Schlapp, during a fundraising trip last year to South Florida, stripping to his underwear and rubbing against another person without his consent, according to the filing.
- In both incidents added to the recent lawsuit, the alleged victims allegedly reported the unwanted advances to staffers at CPAC’s parent organization, the American Conservative Union, but no action was taken against.
- The new allegations were added several days ago to the January 2023 lawsuit by a former Republican campaign staffer, Carlton Huffman, who accused Schlapp of groping him in October 2022.
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Amended Sexual Battery Suit Against Schlapp Says CPAC Officials Knew Of Past Allegations
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD - FEBRUARY 28: Matt Schlapp (L), Chairman of the American Conservative Union, hosts a conversation with Laura Trump , President Donald Trumps daughter in-law and member of his 2020 reelection campaign, and Brad Parscale , campaign manager for Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, during the Conservative Political Action Conference 2020 (CPAC) hosted by the American Conservative Union on February 28, 2020 in National Harbor, MD. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
