Although this seems to clear up the question of whether the IMs were sent to a person while they were a page or not -- it looks like the IMs were sent to a person who had completed serving as a page.
Which means it's back to being an old gay guy hitting on a young man -- For all we know, the young man was actually 18 at the time.
Still glad he's gone, but it's hard to see how the republicans could be expected to "punish" someone for IMs they didn't know about sent to people who were not working for the House and who did not complain to anybody.
What do you think he meant by this? It just seems to be worded strangely, like the page that got these IM's may be suspect, or am I reading this totally wrong.