Category Archive for : ‘POLITICIAN’

May 21, 2021
Paul Blest
VICE

A Wyoming Republican mounting a primary challenge to Rep. Liz Cheney said Thursday that he impregnated a 14-year-old girl when he was 18, and that she had a baby, the Casper Star Tribune reported.

Anthony Bouchard, a two-term GOP state senator, went on Facebook Live Thursday to disclose the relationship before it became more widely known, but did not disclose the girl’s age. “Bottom line, it’s a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant,” Bouchard said in the video, which was labeled “Senator Bouchard

May 14, 2021
Michael S. Schmidt
AJC

A former confidant of Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz admitted in court papers on Friday to an array of federal crimes — including sex trafficking of a minor — and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigations, handing prosecutors a potential key witness as they decide whether to charge the lawmaker from Florida.
Joel Greenberg, who was the tax collector of Seminole County, outside Orlando, until he was indicted last year, did not implicate Gaetz by name in papers filed by prosecutors in U.S. District Court in

May 17, 2021
David Shortell, Jeremy Herb, Paula Reid, Devan Cole
CNN

Washington (CNN)Joel Greenberg, a former Florida tax collector and close confidant of Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, formally pleaded guilty on Monday morning to six federal charges in a court hearing, admitting to a federal judge that he had knowingly solicited and paid a minor for sex.
Greenberg spoke sparingly throughout the 45-minute hearing and with a tone of dejection, responding “yes” and “I do” as the judge read the details of his plea agreement. He wore a dark jumpsuit and had

May 4, 2021
Fox News

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – A former speaker of the Oregon House and current lobbyist in Salem has been accused by Portland Police of soliciting sex from an undercover officer. The charge was first reported by the Portland Tribune.
Democrat Dave Hunt lives in Milwaukie and represented parts of northern Clackamas County in the Legislature for a decade, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. From 2009 to 2011, he served as speaker of the House and he previously served one term as House majority leader.
He was one of eight men arrested in

April 9, 2021
J Post

WASHINGTON – The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives’ Ethics Committee on Friday said it had opened an investigation into allegations that Republican congressman Matt Gaetz “may have engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use” among other things.

The panel’s Democratic chairman and top Republican in a statement said they had become “aware of public allegations” that Gaetz, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, may have violated “House rules, laws, or other standards of conduct.”

Gaetz is being investigated by the US Justice Department for

February 15, 2021
Livia Albeck-Ripka
Indiana Express

A former government staff member’s account of being raped in Australia’s Parliament building sent shock waves through the country’s halls of power Monday, with the governing conservative party coming under intense criticism for the way it had handled the case.

Women’s rights advocates called it an extreme example of what has long been described as a culture of misogyny that has pushed several women out of Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s coalition government.

The former staff member, Brittany Higgins, now 26, said she was attacked nearly two years ago