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Ex-lawmaker quits Indiana State post after arrest

Posted December 22, 2011 11:00 pm

Associated Press

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A former Indiana legislator facing charges of soliciting sex from an undercover police officer has left his position as a senior administrator at Indiana State University.

A university spokesman tells the Tribune-Star that Brian Hasler resigned as special assistant to Indiana State’s president, a position that included lobbying the General Assembly and the Indiana congressional delegation.

Hasler was arrested Dec. 7 at an Indianapolis hotel on a misdemeanor charge of patronizing a prostitute after police say he offered a male undercover officer $160 for a massage and sex.

Hasler is a Democrat who represented part of Evansville in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1996 to 2004. He had been working for Indiana State since 2008.

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