Author Topic: AG candidate steps down amid strangulation charges and health reasons...  (Read 790 times)

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...but mostly for the strangulation charges:

http://www.omaha.com/news/politics/elections/attorney-general-candidate-steps-down-amid-strangulation-charge-democrats-plan/article_4a370de7-8e4a-51e3-a13a-61a26a0a5849.html

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The Nebraska Democratic candidate for attorney general who was accused of attacking his father has stepped aside, citing health reasons.

Van Argyrakis had faced calls to remove himself from the ballot because he was charged with felony strangulation following an altercation with his 82-year-old father on April 8.
A thread about OS lead to this story. Funny though that OS would not mention this story in his section of the JPR board, sounds bigger news than most of the threads there.

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