CPAC Chair Tried To Settle Sexual Battery Lawsuit

The Daily Beast reports:

Embattled conservative activist Matt Schlapp made an offer in March to settle the multimillion-dollar sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against him, but the proposal was rejected, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The offer from Schlapp was in the low six figures, according to the sources. But Schlapp’s accuser—Republican strategist Carlton Huffman, who filed the lawsuit against Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, in January—turned it down and countered with a substantially higher sum. Schlapp did not accept the counterproposal, the sources said.

In a statement to The Daily Beast on behalf of the Schlapps, their publicist Mark Corallo denied that a settlement was offered. Asked about the veracity of the assertion that “there was no settlement offer,” Huffman’s attorney, Tim Hyland, told The Daily Beast that the claim was “categorically false.”

Read the full article. There’s much more. Over the weekend the New York Times reported that at least two other young men have accused Schlapp of sexual harassment.

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Schlapp offered to settle the sexual battery lawsuit brought against him earlier this year, but was rejected—one move among many that has raised questions internally about his behavior in response to the allegation. https://t.co/xFctigbtCh

— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) August 29, 2023