The husband of Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., who is currently running in a tight race to keep her seat, played a role in the mishandling of a sexual abuse scandal at an elite secondary school in New Hampshire, according to an independent investigation. Tom Hassan failed to properly handle allegations of misconduct at Phillips Exeter Academy (PEA) while serving in leadership at the elite boarding and day school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, independent law firm Holland & Knight concluded in a report published in August 2018.