Barney Frank speaks.In the April 11 issue, in his listing of "Gay Sex and Political Scandals A political scandal is a scandal in which politicians or government officials engage in various illegal, corrupt, or unethical practices. A political scandal can involve the breaking of the nation's laws or plotting to do so. ," Don Romesburg, understandably, perpetuates a myth that arose out of my involvement with a hustler hustler Sexology A ♂ paid to service–nudge, nudge, wink, wink–♀ or other ♂ in the late 1980s. Because I had come out voluntarily about 2 1/2 years before he decided to talk about our affair, [the hustler] couldn't achieve his goal of making money while destroying my career simply by outing me. So he added some lurid--and wholly untrue embellishments. One of those was that he had been running a female prostitution ring from my apartment. The House Ethics Committee ethics committee A multidisciplinary hospital body composed of a broad spectrum of personnel–eg, physicians, nurses, social workers, priests, and others, which addresses the moral and ethical issues within the hospital. See DNR, Institutional review board. spent a year thoroughly looking into this. In the end, they concluded that I had irresponsibly allowed him to use the congressional parking privilege to escape paying parking tickets, when he was in fact on personal business and not doing official work for me. The committee specifically disbelieved that he had used my apartment to run a prostitution ring and dismissed that accusation A formal criminal charge against a person alleged to have committed an offense punishable by law, which is presented before a court or a magistrate having jurisdiction to inquire into the alleged crime. . BARNEY FRANK Barnett "Barney" Frank (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a Democrat and has represented Massachusetts's At-large congressional district since 1981. Washington, D.C. |
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