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Massa Ethics Investigation is Worse Than He Claimed, Accused of Groping Three Staffers
Posted on: 2010-03-09 15:33:00
By: Yid with Lid
Over the weekend Congressman Eric Massa Claimed that the Ethics Committee investigation that pushed him out of office was just a misunderstood drunken incident at a wedding. According to reporters who were allowed a peek at the files Massa's account is not quite accurate. He was under investigation for groping three different male staffers.
Massa said the incident that got him in trouble occurred at a staff member's wedding reception on New Year's Eve.
"I was with my wife. And in fact we had a great time. She got the stomach flu," he said.
Massa said he had just gotten up to sing Auld Lang Syne and had finished dancing with the bride and bridesmaid -- in full view of cameras -- when he sat back down at a table with male staff members.
"One of them looked at me and, as they would do after, I don't know, 15 gin and tonics, and goodness only knows how many bottles of champagne, a staff member made an intonation to me that maybe I should be chasing after the bridesmaid, and his points were clear and his words were far more colorful than that.
"And I grabbed the staff member sitting next to me and said, 'Well, what I really ought to be doing is fracking you,'" he said. "And then [I] tousled the guy's hair and left, went to my room, because I knew the party was getting to a point where it wasn't right for me to be there According to the Washington Post:
Former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) has been under investigation for…
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