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#97352
Taxpayers Paid $220K to Settle Case Involving Rep. Alcee Hastings

Former commission staffer alleged sexual harassment by Florida Democrat

The Treasury Department paid $220,000 in a previously undisclosed agreement to settle a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment that involved Florida Democrat Alcee L. Hastings, according to documents obtained by Roll Call.

Winsome Packer, a former staff member of a congressional commission that promotes international human rights, said in documents that the congressman touched her, made unwanted sexual advances, and threatened her job. At the time, Hastings was the chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, where Packer worked.

Hastings has called Packer’s charges “ludicrous” and in documents said he never sexually harassed her.

“Until this evening, I had not seen the settlement agreement between the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and Ms. Packer,” the congressman said in a statement Friday night. “This matter was handled solely by the Senate Chief Counsel for Employment. At no time was I consulted, nor did I know until after the fact that such a settlement was made.”

Hastings said that the lawsuit that Packer filed against him and an investigation by the House Ethics Committee were ultimately dismissed.

“I am outraged that any taxpayer dollars were needlessly paid to Ms. Packer,” he said.

The 2014 payment to settle the case involving Hastings was not apparently included in a breakdown of payouts to settle discrimination complaints against House lawmakers from the past five years released last month by the Office of Compliance, which approves the payouts. That total included only one payment to resolve a sexual harassment claim — $84,000 paid to settle a complaint against Texas GOP Rep. Blake Farenthold.

The Senate hasn’t released similar numbers.

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come on Asshole licker Clown dance for us with your word spin games :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
#97361
Trump's golf outings have cost 85 million dollars in his first year in his first year in office.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump
Can you believe that,with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.Worse than Carter
#97368
johnforbes' post is par for hypocritical Trump supporters.
Trump is spending more and doing far worse in wasting taxpayer money on golf, but johnforbes couldn't care less about it. He shrugs it off because it's his guy this time. $86 million on golf trips in less than a year, johnny.

Hypocrisy, it's what reactionary conservatives do.
#97369
Clownkicker wrote:johnforbes' post is par for hypocritical Trump supporters.
Trump is spending more and doing far worse in wasting taxpayer money on golf, but johnforbes couldn't care less about it. He shrugs it off because it's his guy this time. $86 million on golf trips in less than a year, johnny.

Hypocrisy, it's what reactionary conservatives do.
At least Trump has yet to send a Billion dollars to a fuckng rogue nation that hate America and support s terrorist the way Ojackass did.

Keep dancing for us your traitor ass kissing shit eating communist fuck wad
#97378
Clownkicker wrote:"The economy is doing good and the stock market keeps going up...."-fuckwad

So you must have loved the Obama days. Stock market nearly tripled on his watch. :D

Tell us how it feels to be a hypocritical dimwit, sillydummy.
Not only has the Stock market tripled thanks to Trump but the GDP is 3% and growing unemployment is at an all time low.. Obongo wish he had it so good. the stock market was in the tank, unemployment 16%, the GDP was almost 2%....


Thank you Trump for bringing us out of the 8 year slump
#97410
No Johnnie you lying dummy.

Trump said that members of Mueller’s team are "all Hillary Clinton supporters, some of them worked for Hillary Clinton."

Three of the eight available Mueller hires made campaign contributions to Clinton, which undermines Trump’s statement that all are Clinton supporters. Furthermore, none of them have worked for Clinton directly. Two represented either the Clinton Foundation or an aide, never her, and working for WilmerHale, which has also represented key members of Trump’s White House. The Justice Department has looked into the contributions and employment histories of all of their hires and determined them consistent with the rules of professional responsibility. Trump’s implication is that the investigation is politically motivated, but we see nothing to support that.

We rate this statement Mostly False.
#97419
Elkin, you are reading from Snopes or some Left Wing site like that.

9 of the 17 lawyers made donations to Obama or Hillary.

Your attempt to delimit it to Hillary is very dishonest.

Even beyond those we find people who appeared election night for a party for Hillary -- suggestions of clear bias like that.

EVERY one of the 17 lawyers Mueller hired are partisan Democrats.

He should have known better.
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