COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former college wrestling referee claims in a new lawsuit that U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, then an Ohio State University assistant wrestling coach, brushed off his report in the mid-1990s about being sexually harassed by disgraced ex-OSU athletic doctor Richard Strauss.

“Yeah, that’s Strauss,” the referee – identified only as John Doe 42 – says Jordan and then–head coach Russ Hellickson told him after the official told them in either 1994 or 1995 that Strauss approached him in the shower and masturbated while staring at him.

The allegation, made in a lawsuit filed Thursday by dozens of Strauss’ victims against Ohio State, follows a claim by ex-wrestler Mike DiSabato that Jordan knew about the doctor’s abuse of wrestlers he coached but did nothing about it.

Jordan, a Champaign County Republican who has been a high-profile defender of President Donald Trump, has repeatedly said that he didn’t know about Strauss’ misconduct while serving as an OSU wrestling coach from 1986 to 1994.

Jordan spokesman Ian Fury didn’t return a request for comment on the new allegations Friday. But Fury told the Washington Post that “Congressman Jordan never saw or heard of any kind of sexual abuse, and if he had he would’ve dealt with it. Multiple investigations have confirmed this simple fact.”

Strauss fondled more than 1,400 people and raped at least 47 others for decades while serving as a team doctor and working at an off-campus health clinic, requiring invasive exams for minor ailments to showering with athletes to performing sex acts, according to an Ohio State report released last month. He killed himself in 2005 before he could be prosecuted.

More than 300 of Strauss’ victims have filed a total of 13 lawsuits against Ohio State, claiming university officials wrongly failed to stop the abuse.