A young Republican
staffer who allegedly had an affair with Florida governor
Charlie Crist was slapped with felony charges on August 5 for
stealing nearly $20,000 worth of property from a
pastor's daughter, reports the
Broward-Palm Beach New Times.
Fort Lauderdale police
charged Jason Wetherington (pictured, left), who appeared in
the
Outrage
documentary, with grand larceny, dealing in stolen property and
false verification of ownership stemming from his late July
house-sitting gig in Las Olas for Jennifer Thompson Jones. She
is the daughter of the Reverend Larry Thompson, leader
of the influential First Baptist Church of Fort Lauderdale,
where Wetherington is a member.
Wetherington is accused
of stealing three of Thompson's rings, including her
wedding and engagement rings, then pawning them at a shop in
Deerfield Beach July 20. In a message circulated on Facebook,
Thompson said that Wetherington "confessed" to stealing her
wedding ring and selling it, as well as stealing $5,000 from
her parents' safe, an accusation not included among the
official charges.
Reached in Georgia by
Bob Norman of the
New Times,
Wetherington declined to comment.
Wetherington, 24, rose
quickly in the GOP ranks as a teen, and served as regional
field director for former Florida secretary of state Katherine
Harris's failed 2006 bid for the U.S. senate. During that time,
he came out to Thompson and told numerous people that he was
engaged in a sexual affair with Crist, then the state attorney
general. Crist denied the accusation.
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