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This was the first documented case of taxpayer funds being used to settle sexual harassment complaints against a member of Congress. [ 157 ] Rep. Dennis Hastert of Illinois (Republican), former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives , pled guilty in 2015 to structuring bank withdrawals to conceal misconduct by Hastert against an ...
The Florida House will investigate the sexual harassment allegations made by Frevola and Cutbirth, a spokesperson said last week. READ MORE: Two employees accuse Florida Rep. Fabian Basabe of ...
The fact that a member of Congress is sending e-mails to a page and that he can get away with it [shows that] obviously there are problems." Two more Representatives, Jon Porter (R-NV) and Kay Granger (R- TX ) also supported LaHood's recommendation to suspend the page program until an outside team could evaluate its security protocol.
Several Members of Congress received threatening messages. Representative Eric Cantor received a threat from Norman Leboon, a donor to Barack Obama who had produced more than 2,000 threatening YouTube videos; [31] the Democratic Party said that it would donate the funds to charity. [32] Other lawmakers' windows were broken with bricks and other ...
Austin Murphy (D-PA) was convicted of one count of voter fraud for filling out absentee ballots for members of a nursing home (1999). [124] Mel Reynolds (D-IL) was convicted on 12 counts of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and solicitation of child pornography (1997). He was later convicted of 12 counts of bank fraud (1999).
The former leader of the US Coast Guard who withheld from Congress the explosive findings of an investigation that documented years of sexual assaults at the agency’s prestigious academy said he ...
DEFUNIAK SPRINGS — A complaint has been filed with the Florida Commission on Ethics against former Walton County Commissioner Trey Nick. In the 17-page complaint, Santa Rosa Beach resident Alan ...
A former staff member of Congressman Alcee Hastings (D) of Florida filed a lawsuit against him and the Helsinki Commission (which Alcee was a part of) for alleged sexual assault. Ultimately, Hastings was released from the lawsuit, but the Helsinki Commission was deemed liable and had to pay $200,000.