In his lawsuit, filed Monday in Philadelphia, Leach calls his accuser, Cara Taylor of Northampton County, "an admitted liar and notorious perjurer."
He accuses the other two defendants, Gwen Snyder of Philadelphia and Colleen Kennedy of Havertown of "gleefully republishing and embellishing" what he says are lies, in an effort to destroy his reputation and end his political career.
Leach accuses the defendants of exploiting the #MeToo movement for the sole purpose of seeing his "'head' mounted as 'a trophy on their wall' regardless truth and common decency."
Leach points to Taylor’s conviction of felony perjury when she lied during her mother’s murder trial in 1992, falsely claiming she was the murderer.
Seven years later, as part of an ineffective counsel argument related her mom’s conviction, Taylor brought up the allegations of the inappropriate sexual contact with Leach. She withdrew the allegations when threatened with an another perjury charge.
In a private criminal complaint filed by Taylor, she accuses Leach of convincing her to lie about her role in the murder, and she says he convinced her to get pregnant in 1991 in an effort to get her mother’s trial delayed.