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Matt Schlapp, who heads the American Conservative Union
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paid his accuser, 40-year-old Carlton Huffman $480,000
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On Tuesday, Huffman said he decided to drop the lawsuit against Schlapp claiming it was a "misunderstanding."
“The claims made in my lawsuits were the result of a complete misunderstanding, and I regret that the lawsuit caused pain to the Schlapp family,” Huffman said. “The Schlapps have advised that the statements made about me were the result of a misunderstanding, which was regrettable."
Huffman himself added in the same statement: "Neither the Schlapps nor the ACU paid me anything to dismiss my claims against them.”
CNN cited multiple sources privy to the allegations lodged by Huffman that there was in fact a financial settlement completed via an insurance company.
Oh, yeah ... that's just another misunderstanding. I, uh, was adopted by the Schlapps and, uh, I asked for an advance on his life insurance policy, you know, like one of those PayDay things and ... what?
When the network reached Huffman, he didn't deny the monies made through an insurance policy, saying only, “I am only legally allowed to say five words, and that is ‘We have resolved our differences.’ Those are the only five words that I’m legally allowed to say.”
I am now fully assured that this has been properly dealt with and sealed with one of those ... handshakes ...
Huffman, who earned a rep as a staple in North Carolina GOP politics, was suing both Matt Schlapp and his wife Mercedes for $9.4 million in damages for sexual battery and defamation.
He originally accused Schlapp of “aggressively fondling” his “genital area in a sustained fashion” while he drove Schlapp back to his hotel from a bar while working a campaign event for failed candidate Herschel Walker.
“I’m not backing away,” Huffman said last year. “I’m not going to drop this. Matt Schlapp did what he did, and he needs to be held accountable.”
After the squashing of the lawsuit, Schlapp publicly waved his clean hands, stating: “From the beginning, I asserted my innocence."
"Our family was attacked, especially by a left-wing media that is focused on the destruction of conservatives regardless of the truth and the facts," he then added.
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GOP strategist who accused Matt Schlapp of sexual assault is himself accused of sexual assault in unrelated case
By Jamie Gangel, Gregory Krieg and Elizabeth Stuart / CNN
Published March 10, 2023
Carlton Huffman, the Republican strategist who has accused conservative leader Matt Schlapp of sexual assault is now being accused of sexual assault by two women, according to court documents filed in Raleigh, North Carolina.
The two women, aged 19 and 22, allege that Huffman, 39, performed unwanted sexual acts on them.
The incident is alleged to have occurred overnight in the early hours of February 15 at the home where Huffman was living. One of the women was a new roommate of Huffman’s at the time. Raleigh police were called and an incident report was filed, classifying the allegations as forcible fondling, a sex offense, according to a public copy of the police report obtained by CNN.
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