Gonzales claims dead staffer’s husband tried to blackmail him over alleged affair
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Rep. Tony Gonzales says he is being blackmailed by the husband of a former aide who died by suicide, citing an email that sought up to $300,000 in exchange for a nondisclosure agreement about an alleged affair; the story ties to ongoing coverage of Regina Santos-Aviles and Gonzales’s GOP primary, while he denies the affair and calls for the police report on her death to be released.
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