Buz Lukens
Donald Edgar “Buz” Lukens was the Republican representative from Ohio’s 4th Congressional district from 1967 to 1971, appointed to the Senate in 1971, where he served until 1987, and then back to the House from 1987 to 1990.
Lukens was active in Republican politics from a very young age, serving as the national President of the Young Republicans organization in the 1960s. Many in the party believed that he was destined for national success as Governor or more.
In July of 1973, at the age of 42, he married 21-year-old model Toshiko Shirley Jane Davis. They divorced 10 years later.
In January of 1989, Lukens was caught on camera at a McDonalds in Columbus, Ohio having a conversation with Anna Coffman, the mother of teenage Rosie Coffman, about his sexual relationship with her daughter.
Lukens was quickly brought in front of a grand jury and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, with evidence presented that he had paid the 16 year old girl $40 and given her gifts in exchange for having sex with him. They were also told that he had been molesting the girl when she was as young as 13.
He was convicted of “contributing to the unruliness of a minor,” with the judge describing him as “a man with no remorse whatsoever.” He received a 30 day prison sentence and a $1,000 fine.
Lukens refused to resign his House seat in the wake of his conviction. In the next year, the House Ethics Committee prepared to bring charges against him for fondling an elevator attendant in the Capitol. He finally left his office before he could be brought to trial for that one.
Even while out of office, Lukens’ scandals continue to come forward. In 1995, the House banking scandal task force charged him with five counts of bribery and conspiracy, and after a trial he was given another 30 months in prison.
Republican pedophile Buz Lukens died of cancer in 2010.
Sources:
The long hard fall of Donald Buz Lukens, WVXU
Criminal Release: Lukens Department of Justice
Donald Lukens, Scandal-Tainted Lawmaker, Dies at 79 New York Times
