Christopher von Keyserling, 71, has served on the Greenwich, Connecticut Representative Town Meeting board since 1985. Thirty years after being chosen for public office, he’s finally letting his true colors show. That’s because von Keyserling was arrested on the suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman after he reportedly claimed he was glad he no longer had to worry about being “politically correct.”
via Metro:
‘I love this new world, I no longer have to be politically correct,’ he allegedly said before groping a 57-year-old woman on December 8 after an argument on politics.
‘If you’re proud of that I can’t help you,’ the woman reportedly replied. von Keyserling responded by calling her ‘a lazy bloodsucking union employee,’ according to the police report.
The woman swore at him and then walked away from the heated debate, von Keyserling followed her into her office which she left, claiming she did not want to be alone with him. While walking past him to exit the room, von Keyserling ‘reached between her legs from behind and pinched her in the groin area,’ police wrote in the arrest warrant.
His alleged victim told officers that the Republican ‘looked back with a really evil look in his eyes and said “it would be your word against mine and nobody would believe you.”‘
The woman, who has yet to be identified, reported the incident to police, which resulted in von Keyserling being told not to contact the alleged victim and to stay out of the Greenwich Town Hall Building.
Phil Russell, von Keyserling’s attorney, vehemently dismissed the allegations of sexual assault, labeling them ‘outrageous’:
“Von Keyserling playfully gave a lady who he knew for 30 years a pinch is what the accusation is. And somehow, everybody’s wringing their hands and carrying on that this is a crime, and it just isn’t.”
The Greenwich police department has obtained CCTV footage which they believe is consistent with the woman’s account. As for von Keyserling, he is expected to appear in court on January 25.
