A retired wrestling coach at Ohio State University texted former team members asking them to support Rep. Jim Jordan, just a day after they accused the Republican congressman of ignoring sexual abuse allegations while he was an assistant coach at the school, NBC News reported Wednesday. “I’m sorry you got caught up in the media train,” Hellickson told Yetts in one of the texts, a copy of which was obtained by NBC. “If you think the story got told wrong about Jim, you could probably write a statement for release that tells your story and corrects what you feel bad about. I can put you in contact with someone who would release it.”Jordan, a prominent ultraconservative and founder of the House Freedom Caucus, has vehemently denied he knew about the actions of Dr. Richard Strauss, who died in 2005. Six former OSU wrestlers, however, say Jordan must have known about the physician’s behavior, and Yetts said he told Jordan directly about an encounter in which Strauss started pulling down his shorts during an examination for a thumb injury when he was a wrestler in the early ’90s.

Source: Huffington Post August 02, 2018 03:45 UTC