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Eric Massa Harassment Case: Feds, House Panel Open New Probes
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe FBI and the Justice Department announced Wednesday that they were investigating payments possibly related to the accusations of sexual harassment of male staffers by Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY). Earlier, the House ethics committee said it was looking into whether anyone covered up information related to the case. Federal authorities are looking into large payments Massa's campaign made last month to his top aide and to renew the lease for the congressman's personal car, The Washington Post reported. A former Massa staffer was served with a Justice Department request to preserve all his phone ...
Former Rep. Eric Massa's Harrasment of Staff Started Soon After Election, newspaper reports
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyYoung male staffers working for former New York Rep. Eric Massa started complaining to supervisors about his alleged sexual advances as early as three months after his election to Congress in 2008, but congressional leaders weren't alerted until a year later when reports of Massa's behavior threatened to become public, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Massa, a Democrat who represented an upstate New York district, resigned when the story broke in March, and is still under investigation by the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee, better known as the ethics panel. The newspaper ...
Rep. Patrick Kennedy Calls Media 'Despicable'
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 10) -- U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy is blasting the news media as "despicable," accusing them of ignoring the war in Afghanistan even as troops continue to die there. The Rhode Island Democrat shouted, pointed and waved his arms excitedly during a speech on the House floor Wednesday on U.S. policy in Afghanistan. He chastised the media for focusing "24/7" on former Rep. Eric Massa of New York, who resigned from Congress amid sexual harassment allegations, at a time when lawmakers were debating the future of the war. He counted two members of the news media in the gallery, ...
Massa Accused of Trying to 'Snorkel' Navy Subordinates
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 10) -- In the wake of his sudden resignation from the U.S. House of Representatives, former Democratic Rep. Eric Massa finds himself under increasing public scrutiny for sexual misconduct over the years. While Massa himself has cited numerous reasons for giving up his career in politics -- from a cancer diagnosis to a White House plot to a failure to live up to ethical standards -- the former representative of New York's 29th district was hit with new accusations that he acted inappropriately with male subordinates. Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images Former Navy colleagues of recently ...
Glenn Beck to Eric Massa: Bull Crap, Sir!
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyFormer Rep. Eric Massa appeared for the full hour on Glenn Beck's Fox News program Tuesday afternoon, denying he groped anyone, but taking "full and complete responsibility for my misbehavior." Beck promised to give the former Democratic New York congressman a fair hearing and told his viewers he'd press Massa to shed light on a frequent Beck target -- alleged corruption in the capital. As the hour unfolded, Massa claimed to be both the victim of a Washington smear campaign and guilty of inappropriate behavior toward male members of his staff. He accused Rahm Emanuel of trying to intimidate ...
Democrats Blast Massa Conspiracy Theory: 'Absurd,' 'Totally Untrue'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland did not mince words Tuesday when he denied Eric Massa's accusations that Hoyer and other Democrats forced him from the House because he had planned to vote against health care reform. "That's absurd. That's absolutely untrue," Hoyer said. "Definitively untrue." During an interview on a western New York radio station Sunday, Massa, a former Democratic congressman from New York, defended himself against rumors of sexual misconduct and lashed out at Hoyer and other Hill leaders. "Mine is now the deciding vote on the health care bill," he said on ...
In Health Care Message War, It's Obama Vs. Massa
By Russell Berman - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (March 9) -- Democrats sent two distinct messages yesterday as they campaigned for a final vote on a health care overhaul. One came from President Barack Obama, who urged a university crowd near Pennsylvania -- and, implicitly, members of Congress -- to forget the risky politics and vote for reform. The Washington "echo chamber," the president said, "is telling members of Congress, 'Wait, think about the politics' -- instead of thinking about doing the right thing." Reprising a line from his health care speech last week, he concluded: "I don't know how passing health care will play ...
Eric Massa: 'I Was Set Up' for Voting Against Health Care, Rahm Emanuel 'Devil's Spawn'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyResigning Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) used his regular segment on a western New York radio station Sunday to address his resignation from Congress at 5 this afternoon, angrily denouncing the political structure in Washington and defending himself against rumors of sexual misconduct. In his bizarre exit interview on WKPQ-FM, the freshman Democrat admitted to using "inappropriate language" with a staff member, but he also charged that the scandal enveloping him stems from a conspiracy by congressional Democrats to force him from office because he voted against health care reform last year and ...
Eric Massa, Freshman Democrat, Shocks House With Retirement Announcement
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Eric Massa, a freshman Democrat from New York, announced Wednesday that he will leave Congress at the end of this term rather than run for re-election as planned. In a call with reporters, the congressman said his decision was based on a third recurrence of cancer, and not on an ethics investigation, as was reported Wednesday. Massa first received a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma while serving in the NATO force in Bosnia in 1996, but said in 2009 that he had fully recovered. On Wednesday, he said, "I am entering the final phase of my life." Hours before his announcement, Politico ...
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