Tim Mahoney has more problems than serial adultery, according to ABC News. The Democratic Congressman demanded that his mistress sexually entice potential donors to his campaign, and wanted her to engage in a menage a trois “for his enjoyment”:
Current and former members of the staff of Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-Fla) say he has yet to come completely clean about his multiple affairs, abusive behavior and alleged ethical lapses. …
But a document obtained by ABC News reveals new allegations of threatening behavior and sexual harassment toward a female staffer, that go far beyond Mahoney’s public confession, including claims that he urged one of his mistresses to serve as a “tease” for big donors.
The former Congressional staff member, Patricia Allen, was paid $121,000 by Mahoney after she was fired and threatened to sue.
The information comes from a demand letter sent by Allen’s attorney in the lawsuit Allen filed against Mahoney for wrongful termination. Allen alleged that Mahoney made her attend fundraisers and demanded that she “tease c**k” to bolster donations. ABC says that “current and former staffers” say that these allegations are substantiated by recorded phone calls, presumably made by Allen.
If so, the House Ethics Committee should expel Mahoney, regardless of the election. It’s difficult to imagine a more degrading and abusive way to treat staffers than to demand sex (and threesomes) and to more or less pimp them for donations. Of course, in doing so, they will have to ask how much of this the Democratic leadership in Congress knew, and when they knew it — and that may turn this into the same kind of scandal that unseated Mark Foley, Mahoney’s predecessor, and gave Democrats the majority in Congress.
So don’t expect the Ethics Committee to do anything before the election. They’re hoping Mahoney disappears through the election before they have to answer those kinds of questions.
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