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20061024
-
 Hastert
-  Foley
- Fordham
- Palmer
-  Kolbe
-  Alexander
-  Boehner
-  Reynolds
-  Shimkus
- Trandahl
-  Florida
-  Illinois
-  Arizona
-  Louisiana
-  Ohio
-  New
York
- "House
panel questions Hastert's top aide in Foley case."
... "Kirk Fordham, [Florida Republican Mark] Foley's former chief of staff,
said he alerted [Illinois Republican Dennis Hastert's chief of staff Scott]
Palmer several years ago to his concerns about Foley's friendships with
pages." ... "Palmer has denied Fordham's account." ... "So far, these people
have claimed they warned congressional leaders or their staff about Foley:"
... "• Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz. [Republican-Arizona], said he alerted Hastert's
staff in 2000 or 2001." ... "• Fordham said he spoke with the speaker's
office in 2002 or 2003." ... "• Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La. [Republican-Louisiana],
said he alerted the speaker's office last year and spoke to House Majority
Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio [Republican], and Rep. Thomas Reynolds, R-N.Y.
[Republican-New York], again this spring." ... "• Boehner and Reynolds
said they brought up Alexander's complaints with Hastert. The speaker said
he does not remember the conversation, but does not dispute that it occurred."
... "After Alexander contacted Hastert's office last year about e-mails
that Foley had sent a Louisiana page, Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill. [Republican-Illinois],
head of the House Page Board, and former House clerk Jeff Trandahl confronted
Foley, who promised to stop." -By Kathy Kiely
-USATODAY
20061010
-
Foley
- Hastert
- Reynolds
- Kirk
Fordham
- Scott
Palmer
- Florida
- Illinois
- New
York
- "Foley's
Reputed Visit to the Page Dormitory: New Testimony
May Pose Problems for GOP Leadership." ... "House speaker Dennis Hastert,
R-Ill. [Republican-Illinois], tries to change the subject. But the accusations
about Hastert subordinates who were apparently told about Congressman Mark
Foley's questionable behavior keep coming." ... "Meanwhile, ABC News has
learned that one former staffer who worked for the GOP leadership will
tell the House Ethics Committee Thursday about an incident several years
ago in which he was alerted that an apparently inebriated Foley [Republican-Florida]
had tried to gain access to the pages' dormitory." ... "A source with firsthand
knowledge of events says that this coming Thursday, Kirk Fordham — former
chief of staff to both Foley and more recently Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y.
[Republican-New York] — will testify that a few years ago he was told by
then-House clerk Jeff Trandahl that Foley had been stopped while trying
to enter the pages' dorm in an apparently intoxicated state. The source
said Fordham will testify that he recalls this being the event that convinced
both him and Trandahl to warn Hastert's office, with Fordham designated
to have the conversation with Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer. The
source said that both aides had been watching Foley's behavior with pages
and that Fordham had counseled Foley to watch his behavior." ... "The source
tells ABC News that Fordham will testify that he alerted Palmer that Foley
had a pattern of displaying inappropriate behavior toward pages. Asked
about Fordham's claim that he met with Palmer in approximately 2003 to
warn him about Foley's behavior, Palmer said in a statement, "What Kirk
Fordham said did not happen."" ... "Last month, before the Foley scandal
broke, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla. [Republican-Florida], also learned
about the dormitory incident, which she said she was told about from firsthand
sources." (1, 2,
3)
-ABCNEWS.com
20061007
-
Hastert
- Foley
- Shimkus
- Boehner
- Reynolds
- Ill
- Fla
- Louisiana
- Ohio
- NY
- "Staffer
Cites Earlier Role by Hastert's Office: Confrontation
With [Florida Republican] Foley Detailed." ... "House Speaker [Illinois
Republican] J. Dennis Hastert's chief of staff confronted then-Rep. Mark
Foley about his inappropriate social contact with male pages well before
the speaker said aides in his office took any action, a current congressional
staff member with personal knowledge of Foley and his behavior with pages
said yesterday." ... "The staff member said Hastert's chief of staff, Scott
Palmer, met with the Florida Republican at the Capitol to discuss complaints
about Foley's behavior toward pages. The alleged meeting occurred long
before Hastert says aides in his office dispatched Rep. John M. Shimkus
(R-Ill. [Republican-Illinois]) and the clerk of the House in November 2005
to confront Foley about troubling e-mails he had sent to a Louisiana boy."
... "The staff member's account buttresses the position of Foley's onetime
chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, who said earlier this week that he had appealed
to Palmer in 2003 or earlier to intervene, after Fordham's own efforts
to stop Foley's behavior had failed. Fordham said Foley and Palmer, one
of the most powerful figures in the House of Representatives, met within
days to discuss the allegations." ... "Hastert maintains that he knew nothing
of Foley's actions until last week, when the story first broke and Foley
resigned. His stance contradicts that of House Majority Leader John A.
Boehner (R-Ohio) and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman
Thomas M. Reynolds (R-N.Y.), both of whom said they had informed Hastert
this spring." ... "Palmer, who shares a townhouse with Hastert when they
are in town, is more powerful than all but a few House members. Members
know that he speaks for Hastert." (1, 2)
-By Jonathan Weisman with contributions by Jim VandeHei,
Charles Babington, Dan Eggen, and Allan Lengel -WashingtonPost
20061004
-
Shimkus
- Foley
- Hastert
-
 Teen
- E-Mail
- Photograph
-  Media
- Illinois
- Florida
-  Lawmakers
- "Defiant
Shimkus says he'll keep post." ... "[Illinois Republican]
Rep. John Shimkus mounted an intense media offensive Wednesday, saying
he has no intention of resigning from the House Page Board and angrily
lashing out at the press and Democrats who have questioned him about his
role investigating [Florida Republican] ex-Rep. Mark Foley's contact with
former House pages." ... "Shimkus said he had no knowledge of and no comment
on new reports that Foley's former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, told House
Speaker [Illinois Republican] Dennis Hastert's office three years ago that
Foley had improper contact with House pages." ... "Shimkus, R-Collinsville,
serves as head of the board that oversees the page program, and he has
said he confronted Foley last year about a set of e-mails that Foley, R-Fla.,
sent to a former page. In a telephone interview Wednesday with the Post-Dispatch
from his Collinsville office, he maintained his actions were sufficient."
... "The news that Fordham may have alerted the GOP leadership to Foley's
conduct more than three years ago raised new questions about both Hastert's
and Shimkus' role in the scandal. On Wednesday, Hastert's chief of staff
said he had no such warning from Fordham." ... "And the two Illinois lawmakers
said that they only knew about one set of e-mail messages, in which Foley
asked a former page how he was doing, what he wanted for his birthday,
and for a photograph of the teen." -By Deirdre Shesgreen
-SLTrib.com
-
Hastert
- Reynolds
- Foley
-
 Computer
- Messages
- Teenage
- Lawmaker
-  Law
Enforcement - 2006
Election - Illinois
- New
York - Florida
- "Aide
says he told Hastert's office about Foley's conduct more than 3 years ago."
... "House Speaker [Illinois Republican] Dennis Hastert's political support
showed signs of cracking on Wednesday as Republicans fled an election-year
[2006] scandal spawned by steamy computer messages from former Rep. Mark
Foley to teenage male pages." ... "At the same time, Foley's former chief
of staff said in an Associated Press interview that he first warned Hastert's
aides more than three years ago that Foley's behavior toward pages was
troublesome. That was long before GOP leaders acknowledged learning of
the problem." ... "Kirk Fordham, who was Foley's top aide until January
2004, said he had "more than one conversation with senior staff at the
highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene"
several years ago." ... "Fordham resigned Wednesday as staff chief for
another lawmaker caught up in the scandal, New York [Republican] Rep. Thomas
Reynolds, the House GOP campaign chief who says he alerted Hastert to concerns
about Foley last spring." ... "The Justice Department ordered House officials
to "preserve all records" related to Foley's electronic correspondence
with teenagers, and one law enforcement official said FBI agents have begun
interviewing participants in the House page program." -By
Devlin Barrett with contributions by Andrew Taylor, Lara Jakes Jordan,
David Hammer, Laurie Kellman, Bruce Schreiner, and Marus Kabel
-AP via -STLtoday.com
-
Hastert
- Foley
- Reynolds
- Children
- Illinois
- Florida
- New
York
- "Hastert
Was Warned About Foley Two Years Ago, GOP Aide Says."
... "Despite claims by senior [Republican] congressional aide Kirk Fordham
that he notified House Speaker [Illinois Republican] Dennis Hastert's office
more than two years ago about possible inappropriate contact between former
[Florida Republican] Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., and underage congressional
pages, the Speaker's office insists it did nothing wrong in the way it
handled the investigation." ... ""That never happened," Hastert spokesman
Ron Bonjean told ABC News." ... "But Fordham, who resigned as Foley's chief
of staff to work for another member of the GOP leadership, Rep. Tom Reynolds,
R-N.Y. [Republican-New York], said that as far back as 2003, Hastert's
chief of staff, Scott Palmer, had been told that Foley was too friendly
with pages. According to Fordham, Palmer spoke to Foley about the matter."
(1, 2) -By
Jake Tapper and John Yang -ABCNEWS.com
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