3:08 PM ET A former college wrestling referee says he told U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan more than 20 years ago about a sexually abusive encounter with a former Ohio State team doctor who preyed on male athletes and others at the university from 1979 through 1996. Jordan (R-Ohio) denied the referee’s claim Monday in an interview with the Lima (Ohio) News. Jordan was an assistant coach for the Buckeyes wrestling team in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dozens of men say they were ogled and abused by Richard Strauss, a former team doctor who died by suicide in 2005. An investigation commissioned by Ohio State found that Strauss had abused 177 men while on Ohio State’s campus and that school officials failed to act on a long list of complaints about his actions. The referee, who was among 43 men who filed a lawsuit against Ohio State last week,…
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