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House leadership Saturday ordered lawmakers and staff to preserve records on the former speaker, who faces sexual assault allegations. The order was spurred by allegations in a Bridge Michigan article Friday, which includes lengthy interviews with his accuser.
Chatfied denied the allegations through his lawyer, who said he had an affair with his sister-in-law that began when she was over 18.
'He destroyed me,' Rebekah Chatfield said
Rebekah Chatfield (pictured with husband Aaron) claims she was sexually abused by her politician brother-in-law Lee Chatfield (inset) for more than a decade, starting when she was 15
She said Chatfield groomed and then assaulted her when she was a 15- or 16-year-old student at a Chatfield family-run Christian school in northern Michigan where he taught. She said the assaults continued for years before she filed a police report in December.