{"id":1217060,"date":"2022-01-14T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T22:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217060"},"modified":"2022-01-14T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T22:34:27","slug":"gov-blackface-pardons-perv-northam-absolves-democrat-jailed-for-underage-sex-crimes-in-final-act-as-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-blackface-pardons-perv-northam-absolves-democrat-jailed-for-underage-sex-crimes-in-final-act-as-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Blackface Pardons Perv: Northam Absolves Democrat Jailed for Underage Sex Crimes in Final Act as Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgov-blackface-pardons-perv-northam-absolves-democrat-jailed-for-underage-sex-crimes-in-final-act-as-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Virginia Democratic governor Ralph Northam on Friday pardoned a state legislator who served jail time in an underage sex case, in one of the outgoing governor&#8217;s final acts before leaving office.<\/p>\n<p>Northam pardoned Democratic state senator Joe Morrissey, 64, who was charged with having a sexual relationship with his 17-year-old, part-time receptionist and pleaded guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor in 2014. After serving a three-month jail sentence, Morrissey had a child with the victim and the couple married when she turned 18.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_425050\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-425050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-20-at-4.40.09-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-20-at-4.40.09-PM.png 279w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-20-at-4.40.09-PM-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-20-at-4.40.09-PM-150x200.png 150w\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Morrissey, 57, with Myrna Pride, 19, and their child Chase \/ Joe Morrissey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Morrissey, who won reelection to the House of Delegates while campaigning from jail in 2015, told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> on Friday that he &#8220;absolutely&#8221; felt vindicated by Northam&#8217;s decision to pardon him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was absolutely thrilled that the governor pardoned me. My wife and I are most delighted,&#8221; said Morrissey when reached by phone. &#8220;However, the people who will be most affected by this and who will in the future be the most grateful are our four little children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Northam, who leaves office on Saturday, is best known for dressing up in either blackface or a Ku Klux Klan hood and declining to answer questions about it or resign. He will be succeeded by Republican governor-elect Glenn Youngkin, a businessman and Virginia father of four.<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey has denied that he knowingly carried out a sexual relationship with his now-wife while she was a minor and claimed explicit text messages from their phones stating otherwise were planted by hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey has a long history of tangling with the law. As a county prosecutor in the early 1990s, he twice served jail time for punching an opposing defense lawyer and for writing a letter to a judge that was deemed threatening. He later had his law license suspended after he allegedly attempted to settle a rape case in exchange for donations to charities he selected.<\/p>\n<p>After he was convicted of assault for punching his handyman in 1999, Morrissey was barred from practicing law in federal courts for allegedly trying to bribe a Habitat for Humanity employee to falsify his community service hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Democratic governor Ralph Northam on Friday pardoned a state legislator who served jail time in an underage sex case, in one of the outgoing governor&#8217;s final acts before leaving &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}