Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax's office says two polygraph exams support his denials of sex assault allegations by two women.
“All serious allegations deserve to be taken seriously, but not all allegations are true. The public has a right to know if serious allegations made against the Lt. Governor are true, but the public also has a right to know if they are false,” Fairfax's attorney Barry J. Pollack said in a statement Sunday.
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax gestures during remarks before a meeting in Richmond, Va., Sept. 25, 2018. The public has a right to know if serious allegations made against the Lt. Governor are true, but the public also has a right to know if they are false. The allegations were first made when Fairfax, who was elected lieutenant governor in 2017, seemed destined to succeed VirginiaA fellow Democrat, Northam came under scrutiny in February when photos on his 1984 yearbook page from Eastern Virginia Medical School emerged showing two men, one in a full Ku Klux Klan robe and hood and another in blackface.
Northam has rejected calls for his resignation, as has Fairfax. Virginia's Attorney General Mark Herring, who is third in line for the governorship, was also forced to apologize for attending a 1980 party dressed as rapper Kurtis Blow and wearing brown makeup on his face."Knowing that he was telling the truth, Lt.
In the second polygraph, he was asked, "Did you engage in any non-consensual sexual activity with Meredith Watson?” Again, Fairfax answered “no.”
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