Shane Schaffer, the chief executive officer of the Kansas City, Kansas-based pharmaceutical company Cingulate, is on leave after he was accused of strangling and hitting a woman he was in a relationship with earlier this month, newly-released court documents show.
Schaffer, 51, was charged with aggravated domestic battery, a felony, in Johnson County District Court for the Aug. 9 incident.
The accusations from earlier this month mirror those made in another alleged domestic violence incident in September last year involving the same woman. That matter also resulted in an aggravated domestic battery charge…