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Giuliani Event Aide Quits Over Sex, Theft Charges
By Nico Pitney
Mar 28, 2008, 02:44 AM EDT | Updated May 25, 2011
An organizer for a Rudy Giuliani presidential event plans to step down amid revelations of his arrests for allegedly extorting an FSU student in a sex case and his conviction for dealing in stolen state computers.
<<REDACTED>>, 45, told The Miami Herald that the charges against him were “old news” — and were ‘unfounded’ in the student sex case — but he nevertheless thought it would be best to withdraw from the Pinellas County Republican Party fundraiser because “I’m not relevant and I shouldn’t be the story.” […]
The two criminal incidents involving <<REDACTED>> were unrelated, and occurred within months of each other in 1998.
According to a Florida State University arrest affidavit: <<REDACTED>> was first charged after a 19-year-old FSU political science intern claimed <<REDACTED>>, then an adjunct professor, plied him with beers, trolled briefly for prostitutes, watched “heterosexual” pornography and then exhorted him to masturbate in a game.
The intern said <<REDACTED>> threatened him with bad grades if he didn’t “get into it.” He declined to press charges. <<REDACTED>> said the claims were “lies” but he didn’t “want to revisit it.” <<REDACTED>> was fired from FSU.