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   From: nobody@yamn.paranoici.org   
      
   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.   
      
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