- VIRGINIA BEACH -- A third-year law student at Regent University, who helped run several successful campaigns for local Republicans, was arrested Jan. 10 and charged with two counts of soliciting sex with a minor over the Internet.
Robin Vanderwall is being held without bond in the Virginia Beach City Jail.
Vanderwall, 34, is charged with two felonies -- use of a communication device for crimes against children and attempted indecent liberties with a child 14 or younger.
Vanderwall was arrested after he contacted a Virginia Beach police officer who was posing as an underage boy in an Internet chat room, according to prosecutors. The officer agreed to meet with Vanderwall at a Virginia Beach park on the evening of Jan. 10. Vanderwall was arrested when he showed up at the park.
Let's see, who is this guy...
- A top official of Ralph Reed’s political consulting firm has been accused of involvement with dirty tricks in a GOP congressional primary in Virginia.
According to news media reports, Tim Phillips, vice president of Reed’s Atlanta-based Century Strategies, helped create a supposedly “non-partisan” tax-exempt organization called the Faith and Family Alliance allegedly to drum up support for conservative causes in Virginia. But just four days before the state’s June 12 GOP primary, the Alliance sent out a mailing attacking congressional candidate Eric I. Cantor.
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The Charlottesville Daily Progress reported that the controversial mailing was prepared and sent by Robin Vanderwall, a Virginia Beach man who serves as president of the Alliance. Vanderwall said he used $15,000 from an anonymous donor to pay for the materials, which went to 40,000 voters in the district. He identified himself as a friend of Phillips who has worked with him on campaigns in the past.