That $17 million has been paid out over a number of years is infuriating to me.
These fools can’t pass a budget, can’t repeal Obamacare, can’t put together a simple tax-cut bill; yet they can find time to dilly-dally and then hush it up on the taxpayer’s dime.
And, given the payout amount, it’s pretty clear that not everyone has yet been outed. So what determines who gets exposed, a la Mark Foley or Anthony Wiener? Are they no longer useful; becoming too independent?
McTurtle and Lyin’ Ryan need to go down for this.
No way it is only $17mil.
And who’s to say that that $17 million is all that’s been paid out? We know that Conyers didn’t “avail himself of this “sham Congressional office” to pay off his staffer. I am betting that much, much more money has been spent through other channels to avoid any audit trail in these instances of criminal behavior on the part of our legislators
I know here in CA, they paid out nearly a million bucks last year under their “Open Records Law,” which specifically keeps the public from knowing anything about the payoffs for sexual misconduct on the part of the State legislators. Leave it to government to call something 180 degrees from what it really is!
Keeping it hush hush makes the politicians blackmailable. Need to smoke them out.