And yet another Democrat is exposed for using the tax payer funded slush fund to pay off sexual harassment lawsuits against members of congress. Eric Massa, a New York Democrat, who isn’t in Congress anymore used it to pay off a $100,000 harassment suit against him. Massa’s attorney says he has no knowledge of the payments. So it was either Massa or the Democrat party itself that used the $100,000 in tax payer dollars to pay off tickle me Massa’s settlement.
| Democrats used $100,000 from slush fund to settle harassment suit against Eric Massa (the tickler) |
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The Congressional Office of Compliance secretly paid close to $100,000 in taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment claims from at least two young male staffers who worked for disgraced former Congressman Eric Massa, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter told ABC News.
The claims were settled after Massa, a Democrat from upstate New York, resigned in 2010 amid a pending ethics investigation into allegations he groped and sexually harassed members of his staff.
When asked for comment on the specific settlements paid to Massa’s staffers, a spokesman for the Office of Compliance would neither confirm nor deny any of the terms, saying they are required by law to keep those records secret.