Posted on 12/08/2017 5:26:42 PM PST by springwater13
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
This POS Democrat Alcee L. Hastings was a federal judge until he got caught taking bribes in big druggie cases.
He was impeached by the congress.
Then the stoopids of south Florida elected this turd to congress.
Says a whole lot about the stoopids there.
Also says a whole lot about this POS.
Another bad actor.
A judge taking a bribe is considered a perk for the black-robed tyrants who sit on a high bench. Unbelievable what these bastards get away with.
No repentance and no prison time. This bribe is the only one ever used to get rid of this scum. There must have been dozens of others.
BACKSTORY: Rep. Alcee Hastings Maxes Out Girlfriend’s Salary for Fifth Straight Year
Hastings also employs girlfriend’s daughter and a convicted money launderer
freebeacon ^ | March 8, 2017 | Joe Schoffstall
FR Posted on 3/9/2017, 8:53:46 AM by MarvinStinson
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D., Fla.) continues to pay his longtime girlfriend the maximum congressional salary of $168,411, and has paid her nearly $2.4 million in salary since 2000.
Hastings also employs his girlfriend’s daughter and the wife of a former staffer who was previously convicted of money laundering.
Patricia Williams, the longtime girlfriend who served as co-counsel during Hastings’ impeachment trial as a federal judge in the 1980s, has worked out of the congressman’s office since 1993. Williams started working for Hastings as a staff assistant and has since been promoted to deputy district director in his Broward County, Florida office.
The gig has proved lucrative for Williams, who has pocketed millions in salary since 2000, the first year that salary figures are publicly available from Legistorm.
Williams collected $21,250 for a partial year of work as a staff assistant in 2000, and was paid $98,000 in 2001. In 2002, her salary shot up to $121,307.
Williams’ salary gradually increased to $125,975 by 2005. She pulled in $623,003 during her time as a staff assistant from 2000 to 2005 .
Williams took over as deputy district director in Hastings’ Broward County office in 2006, a move that coincided with another generous salary bump to $143,314. Williams continued to receive yearly salary increases until her salary peaked at $168,411 in 2012, the maximum that can be paid to a congressional staffer.
Williams was paid $168,411 again in 2016, according to recently released fourth quarter congressional data. This was fifth straight year she was paid the maximum amount.
Williams is the highest-compensated member of Hastings’ staff. She earns more than his D.C. chief of staff, the employee who is typically the highest-paid in a congressional office. Williams has now pulled in nearly $2.4 million in salary since 2000.
Hastings also employs Patricia’s daughter, Maisha, as a staff assistant at his Broward County office. Maisha was given the position in 2011.
Hastings’ history with Patricia Williams dates back to the 1980s, when Williams served as co-counsel during his impeachment trial as a federal judge.
In 1981, Hastings was charged with “conspiracy and obstruction of justice for soliciting a $150,000 bribe in return for reducing the sentences of two mob-connected felons convicted in Hastings’ court.”
William Borders, a D.C.-based lawyer who was indicted alongside Hastings, was convicted in 1982 following an FBI sting. Hastings was acquitted by a criminal court in 1983, although a probe later found that Hastings had tampered with evidence, committed perjury, and conspired to accept bribes. Williams worked as his co-counsel throughout the trial.
I knew Alcee in passing
A really nice guy to be honest
Just clumsy
"In 1988, the Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives took up the case, and Hastings was impeached for bribery and perjury by a vote of 413–3. He was then convicted in 1989 by the United States Senate, becoming the sixth federal judge in the history of the United States to be removed from office by the Senate. The Senate, in two hours of roll calls, voted on 11 of the 17 articles of impeachment. It convicted Hastings of eight of the 11 articles. The vote on the first article was 69 for and 26 opposed.[1]"
Not seen on CNN, MSNBC, non-MS NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, nor on the Charlie Rose Strip Show.
“Winsome Packer?”
Her parents were Green Bay Packers season ticket holders in years the team wasn’t that good.
Wistful Pecker. A woman made an allegation, so therefore he’s guilty. And even if he’s not, that’s the best name since Anthony Weiner was raked over the coals by Bohner.
Another dimocommiecrat exposed for WHAT THEY ARE, liars, cheats, Bill Klinton rapists, thugs.
There have been six special elections to the US House already for this Congress. Special elections for House vacancies are prescribed by the US Constitution.
See comment 22 by me. I clarified it.
What a travesty! Hastings was impeached and removed from office for judicial corruption, but was permitted to serve in the Congress because the US Senate failed to include language barring him from holding legislative office when he was impeached.
From Bob Novak Feburary, 2007 just after Dems took over Congress.
HELSINKI PURGE
Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey and Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas, Republican members of the Helsinki Commission monitoring human rights, have written protests to illegal firing of four Republican commission staffers after the Democrats won control of Congress.
The commission’s new chairman, Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida, began the firings under oversight of Spencer Oliver, a longtime Democratic operative famed as a victim of the Watergate burglary. Oliver, secretary general of an international body dealing with human rights, was assisting the U.S. commission as an observer. Under the commission’s founding laws, three of the committee’s four lawmakers must concur in any staff firing.
Hastings is expected to change the commission’s focus away from religious freedom in Belarus and European sex trafficking and concentrate on alleged U.S. abuses at Guantanamo.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/02/inside_report_hollywood_hedgin.html
Note the name Spencer Oliver. He was the DNC official whose phone was tapped by the Watergate burglars.
Alcee Hastings’s a bad person... even worse than most democrats... a disgrace to the human race.
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