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Clarkson is on a monthlong leave of absence without pay, the
Department of Law said in response to a records request. Without any
public notice or explanation from the state, an acting attorney
general has been appointed in his place.

Records obtained by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica show the
abrupt and unusual absence came after a junior state employee raised
concerns about 558 text messages that Clarkson sent to her personal
phone in March.

Over a 27-day span, the attorney general asked the woman to come to
his house at least 18 times, often punctuating the messages with
kiss emoji and comments about the much-younger woman’s beauty.

The attorney general texted the woman at all hours of the day and
evening, sometimes from his state office, until she sent him a
message in early April asking him to respect professional boundaries
and saying she doesn’t accept late-night calls on her personal
phone.

Dunleavy chose Clarkson as attorney general in December 2018. The
Legislature approved the pick five months later.

Public records show that this is not the first time his interactions
with a woman have raised questions about harassing behavior. In two
requests for domestic violence protective orders filed in state
court in 1996, Clarkson’s ex-wife accused him of harassing and
threatening her.

In a request for a protective order filed Aug. 23, 1996, his former
wife wrote that Clarkson “threatened me not to tell anyone ‘what
happened 10 years ago.’ (He’d paid for sexual favors from a pros),”
short for prostitute.

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