Indiana Republican Scandals | Updated List of GOP Scandals in IN

Filed three campaign finance reports that falsely claimed he had raised $222,690 for and loaned $100k to his "Honest Gabe for Congress" campaign to give the illusion he had popular support

Was caught on video stuffing two ballots into his sweatshirt pocket that he could later use to cast fraudulent votes during a public testing of local voting machines

Illegally profited more than $223,000 by acting on insider information to purchase shares of Navigant Consulting stock shortly before it was acquired by another consulting firm

Illegally made more than $126,000 in profit after receiving confidential information about T-Mobile's intention to acquire Sprint from a T-Mobile executive at a golf outing

Had a yearslong affair with a married staffer who he hypocritically filmed a video singing the praises of abstinence with

Packed a handgun in her carryon bag and was caught by airport security when she went through a security check

Reneged on an agreement he made to accept responsibility for his slanderous actions towards a medical doctor by publicly disavowing the very agreement he had signed which resulted in the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission recommending that he face civil charges of making false statements to the state Supreme Court

Slandered a medical doctor during a TV interview in violation of two state rules and regulations governing how lawyers should conduct themselves and was publicly reprimanded by the Indiana Supreme Court for his behavior

Drunkenly walked up and grabbed a legislative assistant's buttocks and told her and the group of women she was standing with that they'll "have to show a little skin!" if they wanted free drinks, creepily rubbed another legislative assistant's back for over two minutes and inappropriately touched a state lawmaker and another legislative assistant all at the same party which resulted in the state Supreme Court reprimanding him for committing the "criminal act of battery" and suspending him for 30 days

Twice voted from a county he wasn't registered to vote in while keeping his primary residence in another county in violation of state law while also being a vocal law & order candidate who subscribed to the conspiracy theory that there was fraud in the 2020 election

Twice voted from a county he wasn't registered to vote in while keeping his primary residence in another county in violation of state law while also being a vocal law & order candidate who subscribed to the conspiracy theory that there was fraud in the 2020 election

Repeatedly solicited sexual favors from a young woman who worked in the state secretary of state's office

Tried to pin down and kiss a woman he invited to his apartment, but she was able to escape before he could harm her further

Pinned a young woman against the wall and rubbed his body against hers as he tried to kiss her and rip her shirt off

Struck her ex-husband in the face in front of their children after she initiated a verbal argument with him

Drunkenly flicked off and engaged in a verbal altercation with two men in another vehicle while parked outside of a White Castle restaurant around 3:15 am which escalated dramatically after two of her male colleagues were shot by one of the men following a night of heavy drinking while attending a judicial conference

Got a DUI with a staggering 0.28 with signs of intoxication midafternoon that included drinking alcohol inside his car, stumbling to walk into a Panda Express, swerving and speeding in his vehicle after he left and had bloodshot eyes, trouble speaking and was found covered in food when pulled over

Illegally funneled $40,500 in campaign contributions from an Indiana casino through "straw donors" who were reimbursed through fake consulting fees and then lied to federal officials when they questioned him about it

Shared a sexually explicit video via text message to multiple people and abruptly resigned days later after the video was leaked to the press

Illegally contacted a victim who had a protective order against him and was arrested by police after they determined he violated the order

Exposed his holstered concealed firearm to a group of students visiting the state capitol to advocate for new gun control legislation while lecturing them about his right to defend himself

Fled the scene of a violent single-car crash that flattened three tires and heavily damaged his car because he was under the influence of alcohol, tried to hide his mangled truck behind a local store over three miles away from the scene of his crash and lied to police that he parked it there because he didn't want to leave an oil leak stain in the main parking lot

Loaded his truck with stolen large scrap metal objects including an air conditioner, furnace and water heater (the latter of which a police officer caught him loading into his truck) from the dumpster area of a heating and cooling company which had signs posted in multiple areas explicitly warning people against taking anything

Trailed and harassed Democratic state rep Karlee Macer at least six times and sent a number of threatening emails and calls to her personal cellphone over a six-month period including one time when he approached her at the tax services center he worked at to let her know he "knew everything" about her

Threw a toilet lid at police officers and so violently resisted arrest that police had to deploy a stun gun to subdue him

Listed an address he didn't reside at on his candidacy application in violation of state law

Possessed 11,000 business cards that falsely said he was a state rep when he was in fact a private citizen

Intentionally falsified documents to hide from the IRS the real financial status of his private businesses

Accepted $13,000 from a trucking company in exchange for awarding them over $1 million in city contracts

Rubbed his hands in-between the thighs of a 10-year-old girl, cupped her buttocks, put his hands up her shirt and gave her massages with a battery-powered device that wasn't remotely age-appropriate while ignoring her repeated pleas for him to stop

Cupped a 10-year-old girls buttocks while giving her a piggyback ride at his home on more than one occasion

Murdered his wife by forcefully striking her in the head with a flower pot and then dumped her in a nearby creek

Illegally voted in multiple elections and even represented a district he didn't actually live in after using his parents address as his own on his voter registration

Threw his phone in a rage and struck his less than 14-year-old foster child in the leg resulting in a cut and bruise during an argument over not cleaning their room

Performed sexual acts on a female minor and tried to get her to do the same to him after providing her alcoholic drinks

Had 100+ felony images of children stored on his devices

Sexually assaulted his own daughter whom he got so intoxicated on an extremely potent alcoholic drink on her 21st birthday that she had to be taken to her hotel room in a wheelchair so he could violate her

Fraudulently charged over $5 million on personal expenses including more than 130 luxury and classic cars which he then sold and pocketed the proceeds from, $60k worth of airline tickets for a woman he was having an extramarital affair with and other family members including his wife, vacations, designer clothes and a multitude of other expenses using fire department credit cards funded and paid for by the public

Illegally purchased or retained two apparently "brand new" handguns and ammunition in violation of a judge's order to hand over all firearms he owned outside of a single shotgun he was allowed to keep for personal protection

Had a multiyear extramarital affair with a woman he knew was a prostitute while also being married

Stayed at a stop sign for "an abnormal length of time" at 1:30am before driving into oncoming traffic and nearly crashing head-on into another vehicle and had a strong smell of alcohol on his breath and couldn't answer simple questions after getting pulled over

Kept secret credible sexual assault allegations against the Republican Secretary of State for over a month ostensibly to protect him