Salsman was accused of using his position as a private attorney and then district attorney to intimidate and silence his victims, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said in the press release. The women who were pressured into sex included women involved in child-custody and criminal cases.
After Salsman was initially charged in February, he had claimed that the allegations were “vicious lies,” according to the AP.
The case was based on claims by five women who testified to coercion. Shapiro had alleged that Salsman would intimidate and coerce the women into unwanted sexual acts on his desk and then direct them to a bathroom in his office to clean up.
2 Lehigh Valley men busted in illegal gun-for-drug-debts swap, AG alleges
Updated May 07, 2021;
Posted May 07, 2021
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Friday, May 7, 2021, felony arrests of two Lehigh County men in an alleged illegal firearm purchase scheme.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
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An Emmaus man and a second man, who was living in a Lehigh County hotel, are charged in the illegal straw purchases of 29 firearms to settle drug debts, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Friday.
The felony arrests followed a joint investigation by the Attorney General’s Office’s Gun Violence Section; U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and Emmaus police.
Chad Michael Salsman, 44, a prosecutor in Bradford County, has pled guilty
Charges include counts of sexual and indecent assault and witness intimidation
Complaints from former clients of Salsman saw how he had touched them inappropriately, forced them to have sex in his office, amid other accusations
Several of his staff testified to seeing distressed women leaving the DA s office
Salsman would ask his secretary to play music or use a white noise machine to drown out the noise coming from his office in Bradford County
As a condition of his plea, Salsman also resigned as the District Attorney
Under the plea agreement, Salsman still faces a maximum sentence of 11 years in state prison and a $25,000 fine
Pa. district attorney resigns after pleading guilty to pressuring women into prostitution, more
Updated May 07, 12:37 PM;
Posted May 07, 11:49 AM
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A district attorney in northern Pennsylvania has agreed to resign after pleading guilty to pressuring clients into prostitution while he was a private lawyer, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced Friday.
Bradford County District Attorney Chad Salsman has pleaded guilty to charges of intimidation, promoting prostitution, and obstruction of justice relating to his actions with five women, according to the attorney general’s office. Salsman was charged with coaxing clients into prostitution for legal services while working as a private attorney. Some of Salsman’s victims were involved in sexual assault and child custody cases, according to Shapiro’s office.
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