Republican State Legislator Gave Paper False Account Of Sex Incident

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By Joe Strupp of Editor 7 Publisher

NEW YORK A state legislator who denied to The Columbian of Vancouver, Wash., on Monday that he had gay sex with someone he met at a pornography store admitted to police a day later that it had occurred, the Columbian reported.

State Rep. Richard Curtis, a Republican, “admitted to having sex with a man he met at an adult video store in Spokane last week, according to a police report released Tuesday afternoon,” the paper reported. “The police report offers a damning and far different version of events from the brief account Curtis gave to The Columbian Monday, one that seems likely to threaten Curtis’ political future.”

The paper added that the police report “is filled with graphic details of an encounter that began at a porn store…and concluded miles away in Curtis’ room at the city’s poshest hotel.” The paper posted the report on its Web site, with an editor’s note that warns: “some content may be offensive to some readers.”

The police report states that Curtis allegedly wore women’s clothing, red stockings and “a black sequined lingerie top before engaging in a sex act at the store. He continued to wear them throughout the night under his clothing,” the paper reported.

The paper reported that Curtis is accused of engaging in the sex act with Cody M. Castagna, a 26-year-old waiter from the Spokane area who “allegedly tried to blackmail Curtis for $1,000 and threatened to reveal his ‘gay lifestyle’ to the lawmaker’s wife if he did not pay.”

“During a brief phone interview with Columbian Editor Lou Brancaccio Monday afternoon, Curtis said he did not have sex with the man and is not gay,” the paper stated, adding that “he initially told police that he did not have sex with the man but later recanted, according to the police report. He also told police that he thought he might have been given some type of drug because his memory of the evening was hazy.”

The Columbian on Monday posted a story related to its conversation with Curtis that began, “State Rep. Richard Curtis…caught up in a statewide media frenzy over an ongoing extortion investigation in Spokane, said Monday that he is not gay.”

It later quoted Curtis as saying, “I committed no crime. I did not solicit sex. I was trying to help somebody out."

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