I was almost immediately hooked after I first saw a campaign ad for Chicago congressional candidate Benjamin Thomas Wolf last week, showing him smoking a joint in front of an American flag. “Legalize Cannabis. Vote March 20,” it said. He looked smart and sophisticated.
I was excited and flattered to meet him. So that night I went to his office at 2048 W. Chicago, where Wolf greeted me warmly. He was tall and handsome. His office walls were adorned with framed letters showcasing his service in foreign countries. He had an acoustic guitar on the couch and a cute dog named Muddy romping around.
I felt like he was someone that could represent my interests in the nation’s capital as soon as next year.
But a State Department agent who’d served with Wolf in West Africa (and asked not to be named) cast doubt on some of claims made by Wolf on his LinkedIn page. Wolf says he was a “security and human rights attache [who] acted as the lead area expert within … West Africa providing both information to the ambassador of the United States and the National Security Council.”
I also researched a tip that Wolf had doxxed a woman to thousands of his social media followers. I went to his office Monday to discuss it with him.
She pointed to other women with similar claims about Wolf’s behavior. Many of them declined to speak publicly out of fear of retaliation.
