The aide, who was working for Herschel Walker’s campaign for Senate in Georgia, made the allegations in a lawsuit filed anonymously. A lawyer for Mr. Schlapp denied the accusations.
Matt Schlapp, the head of one of the nation’s largest conservative advocacy groups and an adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, was accused in a lawsuit on Tuesday of groping an employee on Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign in October.
A lawyer for Mr. Schlapp, Charlie Spies, denied the allegations, saying in a statement: “The Schlapp family is suffering unbearable pain and stress due to the false allegation from an anonymous individual. No family should ever go through this and the Schlapps and their legal team are assessing counter-lawsuit options.”
The lawsuit, filed in the Virginia Circuit Court in Alexandria, accuses Mr. Schlapp of “aggressively fondling” the man’s “genital area in a sustained fashion” while the two were alone in a car.
The staff member filed the suit anonymously, citing privacy concerns and a fear of retaliation given Mr. Schlapp’s influential position as chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference.
The staff member, a longtime political aide in his late 30s, detailed his allegations to The New York Times on the condition that he not be identified. The accusations were first reported this month by The Daily Beast.
The lawsuit also accuses Mr. Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, who served as Mr. Trump’s...
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