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EXCLUSIVEScandal rocks Congress as top aide is caught in outrageous plot with his much-younger girlfriend: 'The nerve!'
Daily Mail ^
| 18:34 EDT, 30 July 2025 | Updated: 18:50 EDT, 30 July 2025
| JON MICHAEL RAASCH
Posted on 07/30/2025 4:58:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The top staffer to a Republican lawmaker running for Senate hired his girlfriend and made sure she was paid thousands, the Daily Mail has exclusively learned.
Georgia Rep. Mike Collin's chief of staff, Brandon Phillips, 39, was hiring for an intern at the lawmaker's district office, and filled the position with girlfriend, Caroline Craze, 26.
Former Collins staffers revealed to the Daily Mail that Craze, despite getting paid thousands, rarely showed up for work.
According to
congressional salary tracker
Legistorm, Craze was paid $5,044 for interning in the district for two months from November 4, 2023, until December 31, 2023.
She was also paid $5,244 for interning in the district for three months between October 7, 2024, and December 5, 2024.
When
Jessica Hayes, the former district director, asked Phillips about his girlfriend's role after being contacted by the office's financial department, she was let go shortly thereafter.
'On the advice of counsel, I'm not in a position to discuss anything related to my former employment at this time,' Hayes told the Daily Mail when reached for comment.
'The nerve to hire his girlfriend, which he did, is one thing. But to remove a beloved district director when she began asking questions is beyond the pale,' a former Collins aide said to the Daily Mail.
'When Ms Hayes was contacted by the office's finance staffer asking her to confirm Caroline Craze's employment, Ms Hayes had no clue who that was,' the former aide disclosed.
'She had never worked in the district office and no one even knew her name. When Ms Hayes discovered it was the Chief of Staff's girlfriend, Ms Hayes asked about it and soon after was let go.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: brandonphillips; carolinecraze; georgia; jessicahayes; jonmichaelraasch; mikecollins; moneylaundering
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His girlfriend is extremely not guilty.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
He’s too stupid to be in the Senate.
And that’s saying something.
L
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:00:08 PM PDT
by
Lurker
( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
She is possibly way up there in the hot/craze matrix.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:01:43 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
How could this “shake” the Congress, and how is a staffer hiring his girlfriend an “outrageous plot”?
Oh the hyperbole.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:03:05 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
To: Lurker
I don’t believe the candidate has anything to do with this.
5
posted on
07/30/2025 5:03:46 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Scandalous! Only Fani Willis is allowed go do such things!
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:05:01 PM PDT
by
vikingd00d
(chown -R us ~you/base)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Approximately 2500 a month? Seriously?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
39, 26 is not a huge age difference.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:09:49 PM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: E. Pluribus Unum
39, 26 is not a huge age difference.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:09:50 PM PDT
by
GSWarrior
To: Chickensoup
With perks.
You don’t have to show up.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:09:57 PM PDT
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
I’m guessing she showed up for work, but she was hired for activities conducted outside the office.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:12:24 PM PDT
by
chrisser
(I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident.)
To: Lurker
Mike Collins announced his run against Ossoff for Georgia Senator this week. Of course, we can expect the “shocking scandals” to appear.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:12:37 PM PDT
by
CFW
To: Williams
Didn’t AOC hire her boyfriend as a staffer?
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Congress is not exactly a bastion of the upright and the pure of heart, so I don’t see how this small potatoes situation would rock anything. And a man of 39 years with a woman of 26 isn’t exactly robbing the cradle.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
“ She was also paid $5,244 for interning in the district for three months between October 7, 2024, and December 5, 2024.”
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The author of this hit piece article can’t accurately measure the passage of time. That span was just short of two full months.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:17:26 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
He really is stupid. He could have hired a different girl and had two hot girlfriends.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:18:49 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes, this one may well get away scot free.
Her debt to society—written off as a complete loss.
To: Williams
“ I don’t believe the candidate has anything to do with this.”
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None doesn’t. Plus it appears that the girl was given a shot at interning for a bit but was not hired permanently.
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:22:24 PM PDT
by
House Atreides
(I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
In the scheme of political life in Washington, DC, this is a real yawner...
When a member of the American Communist Party steals hundreds of millions and funnels it to friends and relatives, it is no big deal...
Just check the Nov/Dec period after the 2024 election...
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:23:50 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
07/30/2025 5:25:12 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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