The Ultimate Republican Scandals List

Immediately "started right in on the groping under the table" of American Dream Calendar Girls vice president Jill Harth and grabbed her "intimate private parts" after he insisted on sitting next to her at a large dinner party

Entered 22-year-old American Dream Calendar Girls model Lauren Petrella's private room at Mar-a-Lago without her permission, laid on her bed until she entered and then tried to get her to have sex with him before being rebuffed at the same time he was engaged to Marla Maples

Forced American Dream Calendar Girls vice president Jill Harth into Ivanka's bedroom at Mar-a-Lago and "kissed, fondled, and restrained” her without consent which made her so nauseated that she "vomited profusely" while he was engaged to his soon-to-be wife Marla

Sexually abused and molested four teenage boys as young as 14-years-old during his time as a high school educator and wrestling coach while he was married

Stole $250,000 from his campaign to spend on everyday personal expenses like family vacations, private school tuition and jewelry in addition to a multitude of expenses that funded at least five extramarital relationships on things like ride shares, bar tabs and hotel rooms

Forcefully grabbed a reporter's arm to the point of causing a deep bruise

Tricked a woman into beginning an extramarital affair with him by lying to her about being divorced when he was in fact married

Allegedly filmed himself having sex inside the state capitol with a woman he was having an extramarital affair with and also sent her at least one racy photograph of himself

Was accused of having an extramarital affair with a former state representative by the Lieutenant Governor

Stole candy bars and a map from sporting goods store Cabella's

Took bribes including a free vacation to Thailand and a $11k luxury handbag from a military contractor when he was a captain in the Navy

Illegally attempted to get an Adderall prescription by altering the refill date without permission from his doctor

Stole a historic 100-year-old handmade state flag from the state secretary of state's office and took it to his personal office at a Republican campaign research firm

Coerced a subordinate into taking an online certification course he personally would profit from with the help of his chief deputy who proctored the sham exam and submitted the results to state officials

Conspired with a business executive to hide $524,000 in assets owed to an insurance company that was then left on the hook for a $6 million contract his coconspirator failed to fulfill and then intentionally lied to an IRS investigator when questioned about it

Created a politicized special committee into the 2012 Benghazi attacks -- three years after the attacks happened -- that was designed to undermine Hillary Clinton's standing with the public just as she ramped up her Presidential campaign

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

Made out with fellow state rep Tim Kelly with her pants down inside a parked car at a local park while being married to a pastor and having two kids and later falsely accused the park ranger who caught them of lying in an attempt to cover it up

Kissed fellow state rep Tara Mack with her pants down inside a car at a local park while also being nearly twenty years older than her and married with four children

Had an extramarital affair with fellow state representative Todd Cotter and then used public funds to cover up the affair which resulted in her being expelled from the Michigan House

Physically abused his wife at least eight separate times over a period of time ranging from when they were dating to the final assault that happened in a Ritz-Carlton hotel which resulted in his arrest

Repeatedly lied under oath and made false statements to the chief judge of a federal court by falsely claiming he had never hit, kicked, or punched his ex-wife when in fact he had done all three on multiple occasions

Had an extramarital affair with a married woman during his time as Lt. Governor and only admitted to it after a citizen journalist exposed it online

Was caught with an unregistered firearm and ammunition on US Capitol grounds following a routine car inspection by Capitol police

Said he "wasn't interested" in "beautiful" 12-year-old Paris Hilton which is weird and creepy that a grown adult feels the need to qualify a statement like that

Convinced numerous people into investing $840,000 in a technology company that he secretly earned commissions on while giving the false impression he was actually an investor

Illegally concealed over $900,000 in business earnings and wages he paid to employees from state and federal tax authorities resulting in an underpayment of nearly $200,000 in taxes over a multiyear period

Filed false election documents attesting she personally gathered the requisite amount of voter signatures required for her to get on the ballot for a US Senate election and then lied to state officials when they confronted her

Accepted a $25,000 cash bribe and agreed to receive another $25,000 from a NY state senator once he followed through on a promise to use his position as Vice Chair of the Queens GOP to get him on the Republican primary ballot for NYC mayor

Fearmongered that Mexico was bringing "crime" and "rapists" into the United States while at the same time having himself been credibly accused of rape and sexual assault by 25+ women

Snuck into a local nursing home, secretly took pictures of a US Senator's ailing wife and then posted them without her consent on his website

Cited his old personnel number from his brief time as a Las Vegas police officer in an attempt to avoid a ticket for driving with fake license plates and fictitious registration

Lied about the origins of a $355,000 loan to his 2010 congressional campaign that his parents gave him by falsely asserting the money came from earnings he made working in the private sector

Illegally structured hush money payments of $1.7 million to elude federal bank reporting requirements in order to hide the fact he was paying the victim of his past sex crimes and then lied to Federal investigators about it

Allegedly choked his then-wife Maureen McPhilmy and dragged her down the stairs by her neck during an argument witnessed by his daughter

Exchanged sexually charged text messages with a college freshman and congressional intern decades younger than him while also being married with three children

Physically abused his college girlfriend by grabbing her wrists so hard they would bruise and emotionally abused her by controlling many aspects of her life and demanding to approve of anyone she interacted with

Drove his college girlfriend to get a secret abortion at a Louisville clinic and became "enraged" when he learned she listed his real name as her driver home on the release form which exposed his anti-choice hypocrisy

Sent nude images of himself to men decades younger than him on a gay dating website around the same time he voted against an anti-discrimination bill that intended to provide additional protections to the LGBTQ community

Improperly intervened to facilitate the release of at least four undocumented immigrants who should have been turned over to federal officials at the request of business leaders in town who personally asked him to intervene while also being a "tough on crime" conservative

Fraudulently accepted at least $500k for her campaign from her husband by falsely reporting the money came from her personal accounts and accepted an additional $30k from four straw donors who concealed that he was the source of the funds

Illegally paid convicted felon and former Governor John Rowland $35,000 under the table to work on her 2012 Republican congressional campaign instead of using campaign funds as required by law

Billed $50,000 in false expense reports to his campaign by lying about driving 90,000 more miles than he actually did on reimbursement forms

Had 17+ images and videos of young children depicting various sex acts on his home computer

Accepted more than $15,000 in bribes in exchange for designating roughly $80,000 in taxpayer funds to a nonprofit entity

Accepted $20,500 in bribes for his role in orchestrating a $200k scheme to rig the 2013 Republican ballot for NYC mayor

Weaved through traffic lanes and had a BAC more than twice the legal limit after submitting to a breathalyzer test

Sold his home to a major Republican donor for more than three times its assessed value of $255,000 at the height of his reelection campaign

Received oral sex from a woman who wasn't his wife after they both partially undressed and fondled each other

Spent tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds on private jets, automobiles, tickets to the Super Bowl, massages and cigars and many other things over a five-year period

Spent over $100,000 in taxpayer money renovating his Congressional office to resemble a room on the show "Downton Abbey"

Passed out in his GMC pickup with his head against the steering wheel and the truck still in gear at 3am and reeked of alcohol when police arrived who then woke him up and took him into custody

Illegally used his family, employees and friends as "straw donors" to donate $100k each to two political candidates and later interfered with the criminal case by attempting to influence a government witness

Rebuffed police commands to exit her vehicle and refused to submit to a breathalyzer and field sobriety test after getting pulled over for speeding and suspicion of driving under the influence and lied about being a "reserve cop" to the arresting officer in an attempt to get out of trouble

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

Drunkenly “grabbed and squeezed” a strip club employee's chest without her consent and then refused to leave after police ordered him to

Pleasured himself in front of campaign aide Todd Bosnich with a "smile on his face" in his office calling him in to ostensibly discuss work related matters

Drove erratically and was pulled over on suspicion of driving under the influence, argued with the officer and refused to submit to a breathalyzer or field sobriety tests upon which he was arrested for drunk driving

Gave an illegal $20,000 campaign contribution to Republican Senate candidate Wendy Long using a "straw donor" and then lied to federal officials when they questioned him

Fraudulently concealed $35,000 he received working for the 2012 campaign of Republican congressional candidate Lisa Wilson-Foley by creating a fake third-party contract with her husband's business to disguise the fact that a convicted criminal was providing them campaign advice

Struck his wife multiple times in the face, yanked her hair and threw her to the ground where he dragged and kicked her after she confronted him over an affair he was having with a law clerk during a fight inside their hotel room at the Ritz-Carlton

Grabbed his sister's wrists and forcefully pushed her out of their 84-year-old mother's bedroom during an argument where he also got within six inches of her face and screamed uncontrollably at her which resulted in his sister seeking and receiving a protective order against him

Threatened to veto $7.5 million in state funding for an office that was investigating one of his signature projects for corruption unless the District Attorney leading it didn't resign after a DUI which would have been an unprecedented move, presumably after which he could replace her with someone more favorable to his interests

Tested positive for cocaine on two separate occasions resulting in a six-month suspension in 2012 and a leave of absence in 2014

Attempted to bring an unlicensed concealed handgun and attached magazine into the US Capitol, but was caught by security and arrested

Engaged in a sexual fetish called "cranking" where he broke into vehicles, disconnected the spark plug wires and turned on the ignition while masturbating of which he was caught in the act four times in a 9-month period

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

Coerced an assistant who was decades younger than him into having sex over a yearslong period by threatening to withhold her paycheck if she ever refused his advances, subjected her to a "steady stream of racially and sexually offensive comments" and fired her when she eventually stood up to him while also being married

Drove in and out of his lane for an extended period of time and had such "extreme difficulty with sobriety testing" after getting pulled over that the police officer decided to arrest him on the spot instead of conducting further tests

Had three grams of cocaine and illicit prescription drugs in his possession when he was pulled over for a routine traffic stop

Operated his re-election campaign from his taxpayer-funded office in the state capitol and used government staff to help him raise money and do other campaign-related work

Lied to state officials investigating a wide-ranging scandal involving state Republican Speaker Mike Hubbard and other legislators about his knowledge of Hubbard's actions and how it affected his political success or failure

Ran a stoplight and nearly crashed into a curb after he departed a Taco Bell at 2am, stumbled while getting out of his car and refused to submit to a field sobriety test after the police officer smelled a strong odor of alcohol on him and inside the car

Made out with one of his married congressional aides inside his office while he was married with five kids

Illegally accepted $24,000 from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for giving them non-public information he had access to that helped the company financially

Paid $300 to have sex with a 16-year-old girl who told him she was a virgin and smothered her with his body weight after she tried to push him off of her

Stole four articles of clothing from a local department store by stuffing them into a shoe box and concealing it in the bottom of her shopping bag

Had a difficult time handing his license and registration to police officers after getting pulled over for speeding, couldn't stand upright without swaying and refused field sobriety and breathalyzer tests upon which he was arrested

Sent numerous pictures of his genitals and other risqué photographs to multiple women he interacted with on social media

Inundated his ex-girlfriend with so many calls, texts and emails after they broke up that she compiled them all into a three-ring binder and reported him to the police and continued to harass her even after a detective visited him and told him to stop contacting her

Kicked in his ex-girlfriend's door and stole her handgun, computer, cell phone and a number of other items while she was away at work

Purchased multiple DVDs and digital videos of "young nude boys" and downloaded numerous felony videos from a peer-to-peer website including one that depicted a young girl being raped in the woods by a man who was supposedly her father and shared many of them online with other individuals over a yearslong period

Accepted a $15,000 bribe with the expectation of getting an additional $15,000 soon after he helped rig the 2013 Republican ballot for NYC mayor but was caught before he could get started because he took the bribe from an undercover FBI agent

Strongarmed leaders of a copper mining company into purchasing a large tract of land from a business associate who owed him money in exchange for him sponsoring legislation that would be favorable to the company, even once explicitly telling those involved "no Sandlin Property, no bill" and then failed to pay taxes on the $733,000 he received from the sale once the deal went through

Made arrangements to have sex with an underage girl by agreeing to pay a woman he thought was offering to prostitute her daughter in exchange for money over a series of email and text messages

Came to a complete stop roughly 30 yards before a green traffic light at 1:45am, swerved in and out of his lane, was observed acting "confused" by police after getting pulled over and refused to take a breathalyzer test upon which he was arrested

Stole $20k from taxpayers by giving himself and six others illegal bonuses as a reward for completing an educational program they never actually finished

Swerved in and out of his lane just before midnight and then refused to submit to a breathalyzer test when police pulled him over which resulted in his arrest

Handed the wrong ID to the officer who stopped him on suspicion of DUI, slurred his speech, acted "very scared and nervous" and was found to have a BAC of .105 after he submitted to a breathalyzer test

Funneled nearly $200k from Florida GOP bank accounts into a shell company he owned with an associate of which he kept $125k for himself and gave $65k to his associate

Accepted $12,400 in cash bribes in exchange for helping a health insurance broker keep their contract with a local school district

Paid $100k to settle a lawsuit brought by an employee of an NGO helping lower income families who he smeared as supporting criminal behavior through a deceptively edited secret recording leaving out the key fact he called the police on them immediately after

Fathered a son with a fellow US Senator's daughter while married with eight children and kept it secret for more than 30 years

Stole a mind-boggling $53.7 million from a financially depressed Illinois town over the decadeslong period she served as its comptroller and used the money to finance a lavish lifestyle which included purchasing a horse farm, $350k worth of jewelry, luxury vehicles, a motor home & properties in Illinois and Florida

Yanked his wife Jennifer Willoughby out of the shower by her neck and shoulders and violently screamed at her while she tried to get out of his grasp

Failed a field sobriety test and refused to submit to a breathalyzer test after being pulled over by police for a suspected DUI upon which they also found a loaded handgun lodged between the driver seat and center console

Ran a red light and then told the officer who pulled him over that he had drank "several shots of vodka" that evening, failed multiple field sobriety tests and submitted to a breathalyzer test which found he had a BAC of .14%