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Rep. Massie Wants to Blow the Lid off the Congressional ‘Sexual Harassment Slush Fund’ Using Alvin Bragg’s Playbook

Oh, there’s a certain poetic justice in Congressman Thomas Massie’s latest idea. He’s determined to dig deep and unearth all the gritty details of that $17 million sexual misconduct slush fund our esteemed lawmakers have been dipping into for eons now. You remember that scandal, right? Revolver brought that story back into the spotlight, thanks to the Alvin Bragg “hush money” sham. Isn’t it curious? All eyes were on President Trump over a so-called “hush money” payment that affected no American, yet nobody seemed to care about our own lawmakers using our hard-earned tax dollars to settle their sexual assault cases. Very curious, indeed.

Revolver:

Thanks to the relentless political targeting of President Trump, there’s been a spotlight on the use of “hush money” and secret funds to sweep indiscretions under the rug in politics. This shouldn’t come as a shock to many, given the nature of fame and power, but where do we draw the line? When is it acceptable for politicians to dip into taxpayer-funded slush funds to settle their sexual indiscretions privately and without fanfare, and when is it deemed unacceptable for a private political candidate to do the same with personal funds? Here’s the thing that’s got everyone scratching their heads: Trump’s stuck in this political circus over “hush money,” where they’re all too eager to drag him through the mud over what amounts to a flimsy misdemeanor at best.

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Meanwhile, our elected officials are dipping into our tax dollars to clean up all their messes. Don’t forget revelations from a few years ago that Congress has its own secret slush fund of hush money—all courtesy of you, the hapless taxpayer. Funny how that works; it’s like one rule for them and another for everyone else.

Indeed, the Office of Congressional Compliance (OOC), which was set up to ensure compliance with the ludicrously named 1995 Congressional Accountability Act, controls a whole treasure chest of disputes involving congressional officials—not just congressional officials, in fact. You’ll be pleased to know that the Capitol Police, the Congressional Budget Office, and many other legislative groups get to wet their beaks in this slush fund as well. Recent reports have indicated that over $17 million has been used from this fund to take care of various “hush” projects on behalf of members of Congress and other agencies.

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The most infamous sexual abuse case we do know about involves a now-deceased former high-falutin Democrat lawmaker from Michigan named John Conyers. This article is from 2017 and basically blew the lid off the secret “sexy slush fund.”

Mr. Conyers wasn’t paraded into court for using our tax dollars to quiet down a victim, was he? We’d love to do a little digging and see if any other lawmakers or federal employees got the same treatment as President Trump, but guess what? We don’t know the names of the federally employed folks who dipped into this congressional “hush money” honey pot.

What we’re witnessing in the United States is a prime example of peak corruption in action. Federal employees can get away with sexual assault left and right, and when they’re caught, the slush fund jumps into action to hush it up, no questions asked. And instead of these scumbags facing the music, it’s President Trump who’s under the microscope and being dragged through a sham political trial.

Shouldn’t we be more outraged over perverted lawmakers breaking the law and then quietly using our tax dollars to silence their victims—making sure we’re none the wiser? In any serious country, absolutely. But sadly, we’ve become a complete farce, all thanks to this tyrannical regime.

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>Rep. Massie Wants to Blow the Lid off the Congressional ‘Sexual Harassment Slush Fund’ Using Alvin Bragg’s Playbook

What about the $17 million secret ‘slush fund’ Congress used to make hush money payments to sexual victims?

April 16, 2024 (8 months ago)

Thanks to the relentless political targeting of President Trump, there’s been a spotlight on the use of “hush money” and secret funds to sweep indiscretions under the rug in politics. This shouldn’t come as a shock to many, given the nature of fame and power, but where do we draw the line? When is it acceptable for politicians to dip into taxpayer-funded slush funds to settle their sexual indiscretions privately and without fanfare, and when is it deemed unacceptable for a private political candidate to do the same with personal funds? Here’s the thing that’s got everyone scratching their heads: Trump’s stuck in this political circus over “hush money,” where they’re all too eager to drag him through the mud over what amounts to a flimsy misdemeanor at best.

This is the Dems’ idea of precious “democracy” in action.

Meanwhile, our elected officials are dipping into our tax dollars to clean up all their messes. Don’t forget revelations from a few years ago that Congress has its own secret slush fund of hush money—all courtesy of you, the hapless taxpayer. Funny how that works; it’s like one rule for them and another for everyone else.

Indeed, the Office of Congressional Compliance (OOC), which was set up to ensure compliance with the ludicrously named 1995 Congressional Accountability Act, controls a whole treasure chest of disputes involving congressional officials—not just congressional officials, in fact. You’ll be pleased to know that the Capitol Police, the Congressional Budget Office, and many other legislative groups get to wet their beaks in this slush fund as well. Recent reports have indicated that over $17 million has been used from this fund to take care of various “hush” projects on behalf of members of Congress and other agencies.

RELATED: Stormy Daniels unequivocally stated in writing that the affair and ‘hush money’ never happened…

However, one thing is true: there is a lot of confusion and misinformation surrounding that “sexy slush fund.” So, let’s debunk some common misconceptions about this secret hush money to shed light on just how corrupt our government truly is. First off, the $17 million figure was not solely paid out to sexual abuse victims, as far as we know. We’re told that it represents the total settlements from 1997 to 2017, covering a slew of issues from sexual misconduct to various forms of discrimination lawsuits. The problem is, we don’t know how much of that $17 million was used for sexual misconduct because, supposedly, nobody kept track, and for some unknown reason, we can’t go back in time and figure it out.

CNN:

According to a report from the Office of Compliance, more than $17 million has been paid out in settlements over a period of 20 years – 1997 to 2017.

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> According to a report from the Office of Compliance, more than $17 million has been paid out in settlements over a period of 20 years – 1997 to 2017.

How many settlements have there been?

According to the OOC data released Thursday, there have been 268 settlements. On Wednesday, Rep. Jackie Speier, the California Democrat who unveiled a bill to reform the OOC, announced at a news conference Wednesday that there had been 260 settlements. The previous tally did not include settlements paid in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Where did the settlement money come from?

Taxpayers. Once a settlement is reached, the money is not paid out of an individual lawmaker’s office but rather comes out of a special fund set up to handle this within the US Treasury – meaning taxpayers are footing the bill. The fund was set up by the Congressional Accountability Act, the 1995 law that created the Office of Compliance.

How many of the settlements were sexual harassment-related?

It’s not clear. Speier told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday that the 260 settlements represent those related to all kinds of complaints, including sexual harassment as well as racial, religious or disability-related discrimination complaints. The OOC has not made public the breakdown of the settlements, and Speier says she’s pursuing other avenues to find out the total.

In its latest disclosure, the OOC said that statistics on payments are “not further broken down into specific claims because settlements may involve cases that allege violations of more than one of the 13 statutes incorporated by the (Congressional Accountability Act).”

Who knows about the settlements and payments?

After a settlement is reached, a payment must be approved by the chairman and ranking member of the House administration committee, an aide to Chairman Gregg Harper, a Mississippi Republican, told CNN.

The aide also said that “since becoming chair of the committee, Chairman Harper has not received any settlement requests.” Harper became chairman of the panel at the beginning of this year.

It’s not clear how many other lawmakers – if any – in addition to the House administration committee’s top two members are privy to details about the settlements and payments.

The most infamous sexual abuse case we do know about involves a now-deceased former high-falutin Democrat lawmaker from Michigan named John Conyers. This article is from 2017 and basically blew the lid off the secret “sexy slush fund.”

BuzzFeed:

Michigan Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat and the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives, settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 with a former employee who alleged she was fired because she would not “succumb to [his] sexual advances.”

Documents from the complaint obtained by BuzzFeed News include four signed affidavits, three of which are notarized, from former staff members who allege that Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, repeatedly made sexual advances to female staff that included requests for sex acts, contacting and transporting other women with whom they believed Conyers was having affairs, caressing their hands sexually, and rubbing their legs and backs in public. Four people involved with the case verified the documents are authentic.

Conyers confirmed he made the settlement in a statement Tuesday afternoon, hours after this story was published, but said that he “vehemently denied” the claims of sexual harassment at the time and continues to do so.

And the documents also reveal the secret mechanism by which Congress has kept an unknown number of sexual harassment allegations secret: a grinding, closely held process that left the alleged victim feeling, she told BuzzFeed News, that she had no option other than to stay quiet and accept a settlement offered to her.

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>What about the $17 million secret ‘slush fund’ Congress used to make hush money payments to sexual victims?

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>> According to a report from the Office of Compliance, more than $17 million has been paid out in settlements over a period of 20 years – 1997 to 2017.

“I was basically blackballed. There was nowhere I could go,” she said in a phone interview. BuzzFeed News is withholding the woman’s name at her request because she said she fears retribution.

Last week the Washington Post reported that Congress’s Office of Compliance paid out $17 million for 264 settlements with federal employees over 20 years for various violations, including sexual harassment. The Conyers documents, however, give a glimpse into the inner workings of the office, which has for decades concealed episodes of sexual abuse by powerful political figures.

Mr. Conyers wasn’t paraded into court for using our tax dollars to quiet down a victim, was he? We’d love to do a little digging and see if any other lawmakers or federal employees got the same treatment as President Trump, but guess what? We don’t know the names of the federally employed folks who dipped into this congressional “hush money” honey pot.

What we’re witnessing in the United States is a prime example of peak corruption in action. Federal employees can get away with sexual assault left and right, and when they’re caught, the slush fund jumps into action to hush it up, no questions asked. And instead of these scumbags facing the music, it’s President Trump who’s under the microscope and being dragged through a sham political trial.

We should be used to this shameless “two-tier” injustice system by now.

Land of the free, huh?

Guess again, folks.

>>22217059

>The most infamous sexual abuse case we do know about involves a now-deceased former high-falutin Democrat lawmaker from Michigan named John Conyers. This article is from 2017 and basically blew the lid off the secret “sexy slush fund.”

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>>22215849 Anon op - Gaetz, is leading up to releasing the Congressional Slush Fund?

>>22215934 Can we get an expeditious release of the $17,000,000 Congressional Slush fund ?

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Shut down the politicians’ sex-scandal hush funds

By Betsy McCaughey

Published Nov. 21, 2017

Updated Nov. 22, 2017, 6:12 p.m. ET

Republicans and Democrats in Washington are vying to appear more outraged by sexual harassment on Capitol Hill. Don’t be fooled. Groping, suggestive remarks and quid pro quos are business-as-usual on the Hill, thanks toa cover-up scheme devised by Congress itself using taxpayer dollars.

The real scandal is thatwe, the people, pay the settlement costs and legal fees when members of Congress get caught with their pants down.

On Monday, BuzzFeed reported that in 2015, Michigan Rep. John Conyers, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee and the longest-serving current House member, used taxpayer funds to settle a complaint from a staff member about unwanted sexual advances. The $27,000 was paid in exchange for a confidentiality agreement. On Tuesday, Conyers denied harassing anyone, but acknowledged the settlement.

This year alone, theUS Treasury has confidentially paid $934,754 to settle sexual harassment and other complaints against members of Congress and their staff.

Similar hush money has been paid out annually ever since Congress passed the Congressional Accountability Act. That 1995 law makes members and their employees anything but accountable. If they’re accused of discrimination or harassment, settlement costs get bankrolled by taxpayers. Secretly.

Eliminating this shameful perk is key to reducing sexual harassment on Capitol Hill. A bipartisan chorus is calling for mandatory sexual harassment training in Congress. Sorry. Training is window dressing. The harassers need to get clobbered where it hurts — in their wallets.

After all, even DC’s most famous harasser, ex-President Bill Clinton, didn’t fleece taxpayers to settle his legal affairs. In 1998, he set up a legal defense fund to cover costs associated with accusations by Paula Jones.

Two decades later, things have gotten worse. Now taxpayers get stuck with such bills, and not just in DC. The California legislature uses public funds to settle harassment complaints. This year, California taxpayers paid a $100,000 tab for Assemblyman Steve Fox, accused by an aide of exposing himself to her and then firing her for reporting it.

When Oklahoma’s legislature paid off a female aide who accused her boss of harassment, part of the confidential payment got labeled “cleaning supplies.” Indeed. Former House Speaker Jeff Hickman defended the hush money, claiming it was cheaper than litigating.

If Hickman thinks he did taxpayers a favor, he’s wrong. Shielding politicians from the consequences of their misconduct encourages more of it, and more payments.

New Yorkers learned that, when former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver repeatedly paid zip-your-lips money to women accusing lawmakers of harassment.

Same is true in the corporate world. Major insurer Nationwide, one of the biggest covering sexual harassment settlements and legal costs, reports a 15 percent surge in policy sales in the last year. Nearly half of employers with over 1,000 workers now carry such coverage.

Some companies swiftly investigate and punish proven sexual harassment, like Fidelity Investments, which recently fired one of its star stock-pickers. But many other employers make hefty confidential payouts to protect marquee employees accused of harassment, and even conceal the payments from investors.