WRAL: “An assistant principal and former Apex Town Council member claims North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore had an affair with his wife for more than three years, resulting in the “destruction” of his marriage.
On Sunday, Scott Lassiter, an assistant principal for the Wake County Public School System, filed a lawsuit against North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, alleging that he had a relationship with Lassiter’s wife, Jamie Liles Lassiter.
Lassiter, an Apex councilman from 2011 to 2015, currently serves on the Wake Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors. He ran in the Republican primary for a seat in the state House of Representatives last year, but suspended his campaign after the election districts changed.
Liles Lassiter is Executive Director of the North Carolina Conference of Clerks of Superior Court. The couple married in 2013, according to the lawsuit.
In the lawsuit, Lassiter claims that “Moore used his position as one of the most powerful elected officials in North Carolina to entice Plaintiff’s wife, (Liles Lassiter), a mid-level employee of the state government, to participate in an illicit relationship with him.”…
In a statement to WRAL, Moore described the lawsuit as “baseless.”
“We will vigorously defend this action and pursue all available legal remedies,” Moore said.”