But as horrific as this sounds, it’s not the worst of the congressman’s antics. Prior to joining Congress in 2013, Alcee Hastings worked for ten years as a district judge – up until he was impeached from office in 1989 for having accepted a $150,000 bribe.
Here’s the kicker: The attorney who represented him during the impeachment hearings was Williams, i.e., his current alleged girlfriend.
Rep. Alcee Hastings Accused of Violating House Rule With Congressional Staff Relationship
Williams is currently the highest paid member of Palm Beach County’s congressional delegation, paid on equivalent $168,412 per year, according to LegiStorm records.
Congresswoman Barbara Comstock (R-Va.), a long-time supporter of the House rule, told the news outlet Hastings’s relationship with Williams violates the resolution.
“His flouting of the rules is legendary,” she said. “This is open and shut. He is in violation.”
“he was impeached from office in 1989 for having accepted a $150,000 bribe.”
Oh my, and we know how Dems took such an issue involving Spiro Agnew very seriously. But no laws for their own, I gather.
My goodness, Marvin, quite a memory you got there.
Looks like Patricia may provide full-service staff duties.
Alcee’s impeachment hearings (when he was a judge) was _great_ TV back in the day.
It would have been a fantastic made-for-TV movie—sex, cash in suitcases, chase scenes with the FBI....
and the guy is _still_ around—proof that crime pays these days—if you are black.
...that certain members of Congress are not called out for their behavior.
“There is a sense that there are people who get away with it and people who don’t,” she said.”
It’s called a swamp, jail the bass turd and move on.