North Carolina House Leader Accused of Having Group Sex With People Seeking Political Favors: Lawsuit

A former city councilman accused the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives of having an extramarital affair with his wife and of engaging in group sex with individuals who were seeking political favors, according to a lawsuit.

Scott Riley Lassiter, a former Apex city councilman, claims Tim Moore, a Republican, had a three-year sexual relationship with his wife that "destroyed" their marriage in a lawsuit filed Sunday, WSOC-TV reported.

Lassiter is suing Moore for alienation of affections and civil conspiracy, and is seeking $200,000 in damages.

North Carolina is one of the few states where a lawsuit claiming alienation of affection can be filed, the report said.

The lawsuit says Lassiter’s wife,  Jamie Liles Lassiter, admitted to having an affair and that “she had engaged in sexual activity with Defendant Tim Moore (including group sex with other individuals seeking Tim Moore’s political favor), and that she feared ending the relationship with [Moore] would result in losing her job.”

Liles Lassiter, currently the executive director of the North Carolina Conference of Clerks of Superior Court, had worked for years in state government and knew the Republican lawmaker.

Moore “used his position as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives to initiate contact and develop a personal relationship with Mrs. Lassiter, despite knowing that she was married to Plaintiff," the lawsuit says, according to WSOC-TV.

Moore's lawyer told WRAL that the suit's claims were false.

“I look forward to meeting Mr. Lassiter in the courtroom. We are confident the Speaker will be vindicated,” the lawyer said in a statement to the station.

Liles Lassiter said Moore wasn't to blame for the breakup of the marriage.

“The claims are not only false but impossible as we’ve been separated with a signed separation document for years,” she told WRAL. “Our marriage was a nightmare, and since I left him it has gotten worse. We are reaching the end of our divorce process and this is how he’s lashing out.”