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A county district attorney in Pennsylvania has resigned from his position after pleading guilty to intimidating his former clients, promoting prostitution, and obstructing justice, the commonwealth’s attorney general announced on Friday.
“Chad Salsman used his position as a private attorney, and then as the District Attorney, to intimidate and silence his victims and interfere with our investigation,” Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) wrote in a statement.
The former chief prosecutor of Bradford County, a rural county northwest of Scranton along the New York State line that backed former President Donald Trump last year by a 45-point margin, the Republican Salsman originally tried to pass off the allegations against him as politically motivated before admitting to charges of intimidating victims, promoting prostitution, and obstructing justice on Friday, according to Shapiro. Those charges are related to conduct involving five different women, and the top count of conviction is a felony.
The grand jury which considered the matter said that the case could have stretched farther, if not for timing considerations.
“While evidence before the grand jury indicated that many other women were placed in the same position, those events occurred outside the statute of limitations and therefore cannot serve as the basis of criminal charges,” the grand jury wrote.
Salsman was reportedly charged earlier this year with sexually assaulting women he represented in criminal and child custody cases when he worked as a defense attorney.
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