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North Carolina’s House Speaker Rep. Tim Moore has been accused of “an egregious abuse of power” in a lawsuit filed June 18 by the husband of a woman the Republican legislator allegedly engaged in an extramarital affair with.
The filing says Moore’s affair lasted three years with Jamie Liles Lassiter and that Moore “used his position as one of the most powerful elected officials in North Carolina” to entice Lassiter, then-executive director of the NC Conference of Clerks, into a relationship and even “persuaded her to engage in degrading acts to satisfy his desires.”
The document states the husband–Apex Town Council member Scott Lassiter–only discovered the affair in December 2022 after rumors prompted him to follow her movements.