Moore had failed to pay hundreds of thousands in alimony and child support, court documents show.
Stephen Moore, visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, appears during a Bloomberg Television interview March 22. President Donald Trump said he is nominating Moore, a longtime supporter of the president, for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board.
Stephen and Allison Moore, who have three children together, were married for two decades before divorcing in 2011. Allison Moore began divorce proceedings in 2010, and her divorce complaint said her then-husband opened a Match.com account and had a mistress. The contempt of court was first reported by the Guardian. Allison Moore then petitioned to seal the records. The divorce records were unsealed Friday after an appeal by The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Guardian.
Reached Friday via email, he told The Washington Post, “This payment issue was only settled six years ago.” He pointed to a statement his ex-wife made earlier this week that “we hope the media would respect our privacy. We remain on cordial terms.” Stephen Moore has repeatedly praised marriage and homes with a “devoted husband and wife” as the best cure against poverty and other social ills. He wrote a commentary in the Washington Examiner titled “Marriage, the surest economic stimulus,” in October 2014, about a year after the court had to compel him to pay his ex-wife child support and alimony.
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