A Ferris State student and Traverse City native finds himself at the center of false sexual assault allegations involving a Democratic presidential candidate.

Hunter Kelly says a Twitter account claiming to be his published an article Monday saying he was sexually assaulted by South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Kelly says that allegation is not true.

Kelly sent us a statement flatly denying the claims in the article and says it was all a set up by two far-right conspiracy theorists.

He says he began speaking with a man named Jacob Wohl who asked him play a role in re-electing President Trump

Kelly says Wohl flew him to DC where the two met along with a man named Jack Burkman.

He says it’s there that Wohl and Burkman showed him the article containing the false allegations against Buttigieg they planned to publish using Kelly’s name.

Kelly says he told them he wasn’t on board with the plan, but the article was published anyway.

The article was also published on a fake and now deleted Twitter account.

Buttigieg had this to say about the now discredited article.

“I’m sure it’s not the first time somebody’s going to make something up about me. And it’s not going to throw us. Politics can be ugly sometimes, but you have to face that when you’re in presidential politics.”

Jacob Wohl has been in hot water before.

He recently tried to pass around a fake story accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of sexual harassment.

We did reach out to Wohl, who responded saying Kelly approached them with a story to tell.

He also sent us a picture claiming to be a legal document he say Kelly signed to back up his story.

But it was signed the day after the time stamp on the published story.

Kelly says he was told that document had no legal standing.

We’ll continue to follow this story throughout the day.