Non disclosure agreements are illegal? Who knew? Certainly not Slick Willy V. Paula Jones or Michael Jackson V. various littls boys.
Yet it was not known that Congress was using taxpayers funds to settle sexual harassment, discrimination claims against congress members and they also made the claimers to sign NDA’S .
In news reports back in 2018, $300,000 in taxpayer funds has was spent to settle 13 claims against members of Congress or their offices since 2003. Unknown rule was that they made claimers sign NDA’S in order to move forward with mediation, settlements. Very hush hush until it wasn’t.
Of course, no one is allowed to know who the 13 were, except for one, which was a Republican which a $84,000 payment, stemmed from a 2014 lawsuit brought against Rep. Blake Farenthold by a woman who was his former communications director.