CASPER – Wyoming Sen. Anthony Bouchard says he is staying in the U.S. House GOP race following his disclosure that he impregnated a 14-year-old when he was 18, striking a
Lander, Wyoming, United States: A woman was given a prison sentence for falsely accusing a man of sexual assault and trying to extort money from him.
36-year-old Rachael Myla Stagner was given 21 months behind bars for falsely accusing a white man of sexually assaulting her on the Wind River Indian Reservation. She was indicted in September 2020 but pleaded guilty in this year to making false statements to authorities.
Stagnerâs lies ignited an investigation by the FBI due to the alleged crime taking place on an Indian reservation. The U.S. Attorneyâs Office said that even as her story started to fall apart, she kept on insisting she had been sexually assaulted in an attempt to extort money from the falsely accused man.
Written by Associated Press on May 25, 2021
“That’d be great,” state Sen. Anthony Bouchard said Monday of any possibility of censure by the Legislature. “Do it. Bring it on.”
Bouchard then refused to answer questions about the girl he married after she bore his son and who killed herself at age 20 in 1990, the year after they divorced.
“I’m not talking anymore about that, about this story,” he told the Casper Star-Tribune at a news conference in Gillette he’d scheduled hours earlier.
Bouchard is among at least eight Republicans running against Rep. Liz Cheney. He has been a state senator from Cheyenne since 2017 and previously was a gun rights activist.