Exclusive | Upstate House Dem candidate has convicted perv brother-in-law help campaign

An upstate House candidate pontificated about the Epstein files and a would-be politician’s assault scandal – despite hitting the campaign trail alongside his registered sex offender brother-in-law, The Post has learned.Democrat Aaron Gies, who’s looking to unseat two-term Republican Rep.Nick Langworthy, was assisted by his brother-in-law Christopher Nathan White, a former North Carolina teacher convicted on rape and sex offense charges involving two teen students – who allegedly shot video at a winter “Polar Plunge” event.“He was there,” Gies told The Post Sunday of the campaign plunge event that unfolded Dec.

26, 2025.“Chris is not part of my campaign,” he said but noted that White “did his time” for his crime.He called the situation a “distraction” from his push for better health care and housing opportunities.“I have not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing and have not covered up criminal wrongdoing on the part of others,” the candidate said.Gies, a theology professor at St.

Bonaventure University, had gotten on his high horse last week and urged Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner to drop his election bid due to claims of rape and sexual assault.He also slammed Langworthy for allegedly using his position on the House Oversight Committee to block “accountability for people in the Epstein files.”But those comments came after his brother-in-law appeared at his own campaign event, despite doing five years behind bars after he was convicted of one count of rape and two counts of sex offense against two students, ages 15 and 17.White moved to New York after getting out of prison and now works at a veterinary clinic run by Gies’ wife and his sister in Olean.He’s listed as a Level 2 Sex Offender in the state Division of Criminal Justice Services’ Sex Offender Registry.Retired Marine Chris Hahn, who attended the polar plunge event, said he was left feeling uneasy when he found out who shot the video at the fundraiser, w...