GOP Chasing The Youth Vote
So Richard Delgaudio, a notoriously loud Republican activist fundraiser who raised money to defend felon Oliver North and other notorious Reagan-era miscreants from justice, plead guilty to possessing child porn. This was part of a plea bargain, because the photos showed him having sex with a teenager and he wanted to avoid the stat rape charge, among others. This is the same guy who led the deranged attack on Clinton’s sex life in the mid-90s, calling Clinton “a lawbreaker and a terrible example to our nation’s young people”. Right.
Delgaudio was charged with taking sexually explicit photographs of a 16-year-old girl. He paid the girl — a single mother and high school dropout — by the hour for photo shoots at the Deluxe Plaza Motel … Delgaudio’s attorneys issued a statement saying that their client “acknowledges the acute moral shortcomings of his conduct and he will continue intense self-examination, and professional and spiritual counseling.” … [He] heads an array of conservative activist groups … He is listed as president of Legal Affairs Council Inc., which had $2.6 million in revenue in 2001 … Delgaudio also is listed as chairman and director of the United States Intelligence Council and president of National Security Center Inc.
Well that’s a relief, who knows what would happen if he didn’t carry on his self-examination.
[He] admitted to taking lewd photographs of a 16-year-old girl he met in East Baltimore’s Patterson Park in 2001. In some of the photos, he was engaged in sex with her … He is president of the Legal Affairs Council, a group that helped pay the legal bills of former Reagan administration officials Oliver L. North and Caspar W. Weinberger after they were charged in connection with the Iran-contra affair … In his pornography case, there was additional evidence that Delgaudio took erotic images of at least one other, younger teen-ager, but that evidence was not admissible in court … [He] was arrested in November 2001 with a book of obscene photographs he had taken of 15- and 16-year-old girls, according to court documents. The teen-agers went with him on several occasions to a hotel on Pulaski Highway, where they had sex and he paid them to pose in erotic positions for his camera.