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I was under the impression that FRank got nailed for attempting to engage in underage sex with someone...maybe I'm wrong. I'll look.
 
Oh, no, sorry...he ran a male sex ring:

"Barney Frank
A.B.1962; J.D., 1977

A U.S. congressman admits to paying a male prostitute for homosexual sex: Ordinarily, that alone would create a scandal. In Frank’s case, it was only the tip of the iceberg. In 1989, the same male prostitute further claimed to have run an escort service out of the Massachusetts Democrat’s Washington, D.C., apartment. The House Ethics Committee couldn’t validate the claim, so instead of censure or expulsion, Frank got away with a reprimand. He remains in office."

I guess if he can successfully run an escort service without getting busted, he should be allowed to tell us how to manage the US economy.

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I was under the impression that FRank got nailed for attempting to engage in underage sex with someone...maybe I'm wrong. I'll look.

No, Ali, that was your guy Foley from here in Florida. You know, an intern thing.:lol:

Nice that you would slander Franks without any proof.:eusa_silenced:
 
No, he hired someone else to run it out of his apartment.

I'm sure he knew nothing about it, lol.

Anyway, the bill didn't pass. That's good news.
 
Frank faced scandal in late 1989 when the Washington Times ran an article based on an interview with Stephen Gobie, a hustler and convicted felon, who had worked as Frank's housekeeper and driver for two years beginning in 1985. Gobie, who had lived in a part of Frank's townhouse during the period of his employment, had been running a prostitution ring and claimed that Frank had been aware of his activities.

Frank acknowledged that he knew of Gobie's background but said that he had tried "to be Henry Higgins" and transform the young man's life. Once the landlady told him of the suspicious activity that was occurring at the townhouse in his absence, however, he had immediately fired Gobie.

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Frank himself called for an investigation by the House ethics committee, which eventually concluded that there was no evidence that Frank had been aware of Gobie's prostitution operation but that he had arranged for the waiving of parking tickets that Gobie had received while using his car.


After a bitter and occasionally raucous four-hour debate in July 1990, the full House voted to reprimand Frank, decisively rejecting a motion for expulsion proposed by conservative Republican Representative William Dannemeyer and another for censure put forth by Republican whip Newt Gingrich.



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FYI: Democrats voted 141 for, 94 against. Republicans voted 66 for, 132 against.
 

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