Last Updated on June 19, 2023
North Carolina Speaker of the House Tim Moore used his position to advance a deviant sexual relationship with a state employee, according to a lawsuit filed in Wake County.
Speaker Tim Moore is at the center of the scandal primarily because of the allegation that he had an affair with an at-will state employee named Jamie Lassiter.
The plaintiff, Scott Lassiter, filed the lawsuit under a North Carolina law known as ‘Alienation of Affection,” a law typically on the books in more conservative, Christian states in the south that has fallen out of favor in many places.
In North Carolina, plaintiffs such as Scott Lassiter can recover both economic and non-economic damages from someone like Tim Moore if he is found to have interfered with a loving marriage.
If it bears out that Liles Lassiter was in fact coerced into participating in group sex with Tim Moore, who used his power to make that happen, the damages owed to Scott Lassiter could be significant.
Economic damages may also be awarded to compensate for monetary losses related to the interference with the marriage, and may include loss of earnings or earning capacity or other financial harms suffered as a result of the alienation. 
The ‘Alienation of Affection’ claim further raises the stakes for Speaker Moore, who is in the middle of budget negotiations.
Sources inside the Beltway tell National File that Moore won’t last much longer as Speaker of the House.
Jamie Lassiter believes she got preferential treatment because of the sex and was concerned the Speaker would take it out on her and her organization, the North Carolina Conference of Clerks of Superior Court, if she ended the affair, according to the lawsuit.
“At the time Defendant Tim Moore began pursuing a sexual relationship with Mrs. Lassiter, Defendant Tim Moore was aware that Plaintiff and Mrs. Lassiter were happily married to each other and living together,” the suit reads.
The lawsuit alleges N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore used his position to begin and maintain a sexual relationship with Lassiter, a state employee.
The lawsuit was electronically filed Sunday night in Wake County Superior Court.
According to the complaint, Moore has had an extramarital affair with the executive director of the N.C. Conference of Clerks of Superior Court, Jamie Liles Lassiter, since 2019.
The lawsuit was filed by Lassiter’s husband, Scott Lassiter.
Raleigh insiders are beginning to ask whether Speaker Moore has been trading sex for preferential treatment. And if he has been trading sex for preferential treatment, how long has he been doing so?
The Daily Haymaker called Tim Moore a “wife stealer.”
