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Saturday 8 April 2017
Seattle mayor: Sex abuse allegations “not true” won’t resign
MARTHA BELLISLE crease the city’s minimum Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, right, walks past his husband, Michael Shiosaki, left, and his attorney,
Associated Press wage to $15 an hour and Bob Sulkin, before speaking to the media, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Seattle. Three men claim that
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle address the homelessness Murray sexually abused them in the 1980s, paying for sex when they were teenagers and Murray
Mayor Ed Murray said Fri- crisis in Seattle. was in his 30s. Murray denied the allegations and said he will not step down.
day that sex abuse allega- In the lawsuit filed in King
tions made against him are County Superior Court, a (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
“simply not true,” and that 46-year-old man, identified
he won’t resign and will only by the initials, D.H., said to depose Murray in May. the 1980s and paying them ated Press an entry in an
continue seeking re-elec- Murray “raped and molest- The Times also reported for sex and said they’d be old case-tracking system
tion. ed him” over several years, (http://bit.ly/2oOAwXY ) willing to testify about it, the shows the office rejected a
“To be on the receiving end beginning in 1986 — when that two other men said Times said. third-degree sodomy case
of such untrue allegations is he was 15 and addicted to they knew Murray when The Times said one of them against Murray in 1984. Sgt.
very painful for me,” Mur- crack cocaine and when they lived in a Portland, Or- talked with a social worker Pete Simpson of the Port-
ray said at a brief appear- Murray was in his early 30s. egon, center for troubled and detective at the time. land Police Bureau said the
ance where he delivered The man said he met Mur- children. Jeff Simpson and Multnomah County Chief department has found no
a short statement. “These ray on a city bus, and Mur- Lloyd Anderson accused Deputy District Attorney records linking either man
allegations dating back to ray invited him back to his Murray of abusing them in Don Rees told The Associ- to Murray.q
a period of more than 30 apartment, propositioning
years are simply not true ... I him for sex and haggling
will continue to be mayor.” over the price.
He did not take questions Murray paid him $10 to $20
from reporters. for each of at least 50 en-
A lawsuit filed Thursday ac- counters over the next four
cuses Murray, who is finish- to five years, the lawsuit
ing his first term, of sexually said. On Friday, Lincoln Be-
molesting a teenage high- auregard, the lawyer rep-
school dropout in the 1980s. resenting D.H., sent a letter
In interviews with The Se- to the mayor’s attorney,
attle Times, two other men offering to make D.H. avail-
claim he abused them. able for a video deposition
Murray was elected mayor as soon as next week.
in 2013 after a long career “D.H. is anxious to respond
in the Legislature, where to your public allegations
he led efforts to legalize of wrongful motive,” Beau-
gay marriage in the state. regard wrote.
As mayor he pushed to in- Beauregard said they want
Alabama governor defiant as sex scandal trouble mounts
KIM CHANDLER rassing journey whose end- ethics and campaign law. the House Judiciary Com- noon.
ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE ing is likely known.” Bentley said he has been mittee seeking to block Bentley, 74, has been en-
Associated Press A defiant Bentley hastily humiliated and apologized proceedings that include gulfed in scandal since re-
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) called a news conference for his mistakes. But, he said, the release of a special cordings surfaced in 2016
— Alabama Gov. Robert on the steps of the Capitol he has done nothing illegal. counsel’s potentially em- of him making suggestive
Bentley made a last-ditch and refused to resign at the “If the people want to know barrassing report in the on- remarks to a female aide
attempt to stop proceed- end of particularly difficult if I misused state resources, going impeachment inves- before he and his wife of
ings that could lead to his week. the answer is simply no. I tigation. 50 years got divorced. The
impeachment and calls for Aside from fellow Repub- have not,” Bentley said in a A judge said during a hear- mild-mannered dermatolo-
his resignation grew Friday, licans telling him to quit, statement on marble steps ing that he wasn’t inclined gist and former Baptist dea-
with the House speaker Bentley learned he could of the Capitol. He did not to block the release, and con has acknowledged
warning that continuing a face criminal prosecution take questions. then later recused himself. making personal mistakes
sex-tinged scandal would when the Alabama Ethics Moments before Bentley Another judge was as- but maintained he did
drag the state through “a Commission found prob- addressed the media, his signed the case and hold- nothing illegal or to merit his
long, painful and embar- able cause that he broke office filed a lawsuit against ing a hearing Friday after- removal from office.q
