Re: Democrat sex offender Gary Ackerman.

A man identified in court records as “John Doe” alleges in a new 
lawsuit that former New York Rep. Gary Ackerman sexually abused him 
when he was a teenager. 

The plaintiff says Ackerman exploited him in 1966 when the former 
Democratic congressman was a director at Ten Mile River Scout Camp, 
a 12,000-acre Boy Scout reserve, according to the complaint filed in 
the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The suit also names the 
camp and the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America 
as defendants. 

The news was first reported by The Associated Press. 

Ackerman’s attorney, Oscar Michelen of Cuomo LLC, stridently denied 
the allegations in a statement to the AP and said they would 
“vigorously” seek to have the suit dismissed. 

“In over 30 years of public service, there has never been any 
accusation of this kind or indeed of any wrongdoing in the 
Congressman’s career,” Michelen said.

The Boy Scouts also denies negligence in hiring Ackerman. 

“Had the national organization been made aware of credible 
allegations against Mr. Ackerman, we would have acted to remove him 
from scouting,” the organization said in a statement to the AP.

John Doe says that when he was a 17-year-old camper in Narrowsburg, 
New York, a remote town along the Delaware River, Ackerman drove him 
to an abandoned road and attempted to force him to perform oral sex, 
then forcefully performed oral sex on him.