saxitoxin wrote:Juan_Bottom wrote:Barney Frank was never caught paying a hooker $20,000 a month to live with him.
Years earlier, Frank had paid Gobie for sex; he eventually hired him as his assistant. Gobie was later accused of running a sex business out of Frank's home. Frank also used his House privileges to waive Gobie's parking tickets.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/200 ... rostitutes
That's not the same thing. He didn't pay him $20,000 a month to have sex with him as a sex toy.
When he paid Gobie to have sex with him (1 time only), that was at a time when it was not ok to be an "out" homosexual in America. "Gay Bashing" had become a social phenomenon, and there had never been an open homosexual in Congress, the White House, or the Supreme Court. And it's clear that, because he later hired Gobie to work as an assistant, that he didn't originally hire Gobie just for sex. There had to be a companionship aspect to it. He may have also hired him later because of a feeling of guilt.
saxitoxin wrote: The House ethics committee voted today to recommend that Representative Barney Frank receive a formal reprimand from the House for his relationship with a male prostitute, Congressional officials said. The committee's unanimous vote in a closed meeting ended months of deadlock among its 12 members over how harsh a punishment was appropriate.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/20/us/fo ... panel.html
They found him innocent of the charges you've you've lobbed against him again. The House Ethics Committee ran a witch hunt to investigate (D) Frank's gayness and relationship with a Gay Prostitute. They found that all claims against him were groundless.
What they did find was that Barney Frank had "misstatements of fact in a memorandum" for Gobie's criminal record and that he used his office to fix 33 of Gobie's parking tickets.
saxitoxin wrote:These are the current, mid-cycle, 2012 figures and they're still incredibly high for a Congressman who has run unopposed 4 of the last 7 elections (in 2002 he won with 99% of the vote and spent $0, but raised $1.8 million). Pre-scandal numbers were astonishing. He was the second highest paid member of Congress by the financial services industries after Joe "Mastercard" Biden.
http://www.opensecrets.org
The Center for Responsive Politics estimate Banrey Frank's personal worth between $619,024 and $1,510,000. His default yearly salary of $174,000 per year means that he could easily achieve this net without being a sell-out. In fact, were he a sell out, I'd expect his personal wealth to be much greater.
) if it means Ellen and Portia have a glamorous wedding and Bawney gets entertained by all manner of muscular young men who have been paid to be mounted by hundreds of pounds of fat at his luxury Boston townhome.
