5 Dec 2017 6:00 pm
Republican Congressman Says He Will Pay Back $84,000 Sexual Harassment Settlement
A Texas Congressman said Monday he would pay back the $84,000 in taxpayer money that was used to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit that was filed by a former employee.
“Even though I was completely exonerated by [the Office of Congressional Ethics] and the settlement agreement has been paid, I am doing my best and am going to hand a check over this week to, probably Speaker Ryan or somebody, and say, look, here is the amount of my settlement.
Give it back to the taxpayers,” Farenthold said in an interview with KRIS-TV.
In 2014, Rep. Blake Farenthold’s former communications director Lauren Greene sued alleging she’d been sexually harassed by the Congressman while working in his office.
On Friday, Politico reported that Farenthold’s office used taxpayer money to pay off an $84,000 settlement that was reached in that case.
http://time.com/5048265/blake-farenthol ... ettlement/
