Representative Jim Jordan, the Republican congressman for Ohio’s 4th district, is currently embroiled in a scandal over whether or not he had knowledge of sexual abuse at Ohio State University while he was an assistant coach on the school’s wrestling team between 1987 and 1995. Jordan has denied having any knowledge of the abuse, despite a number of former OSU wrestlers stating otherwise.
The alleged abuse at OSU is said to have occurred during the tenure of the Dr. Richard Strauss (1978 to 1998). Strauss, who died in 2005, has been accused of sexual abuse by dozens of former student athletes and past patients of the school’s student health services unit.