All three are
members in good standing
of the older
(Do Nothing Congress)!
Bob Livingston
On the day of the
impeachment vote, Livingston announced he was resigning following revelations
that he had engaged in an extramarital affair.
According to Hustler
Magazine Publisher Larry Flint, who offered a reward for information about the
sex lives of members of Congress, he
“found four women
who said they had been involved with Mr. Livingston over the last 10 years.”
Robert Linlithgow
"Bob" Livingston, Jr. (born April 30, 1943)
is a Washington, D.C.-based
lobbyist and he was chosen
as Newt Gingrich's
successor as Speaker
of the United States House of Representatives late in 1998,
but instead retired
over concerns his extramarital affair would inhibit his efforts to impeach
President Bill Clinton.
Following
Livingston’s resignation,
which occurred on
the same day the House voted on impeachment,
Rep. Dennis Hastert
(R-IL)
quickly gained
support of the Republican leadership to succeed him as Speaker-designate.
He began formally
serving as speaker in January 1999,
and held that role
while the Senate conducted their trial on the articles of impeachment.
On Thursday,
Hastert was indicted
on charges that he
illegally structured $1.7 million in payments to an
individual
in an attempt to cover up prior misconduct.
According to
reports, the payments were allegedly intended to
“conceal sexual
abuse against a former male student he knew during his days as a teacher in
Yorkville, Ill.”
The LA Times also
reported that
“investigators also
spoke with a second man who raised similar allegations that corroborated what
the former student said.”
Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
led the push for Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
Following a
disappointing election in November 1998, he announced he was stepping down as
Speaker and resigning from Congress.
Gingrich later
admitted that, while he was pushing for Clinton’s impeachment,
he was engaged
in an affair with a Congressional aide.
“There were times when I was praying
and when I felt I was doing things that were wrong.
But I was still doing
them,”
Gingrich said in 2007.
He later said the situation was “complex and,
obviously, I wasn’t doing things to be proud of.”
Adultery -- Draft
Dodger -- Lying Corporate Lobbyist
-- Spending Spree at Tiffany's -- Who
Owns Him? -- Divorce, Disease and Younger Women -- Dead-Beat Dad -- House Banking Scandal -- Wannabe Dictator -- GOPAC
sleaze -- Corporate
$ to Newt's wife -- Shady
Book Deals -- Sources -- Quotes
UPDATE APR 27, 2016
1:28 PM
On April 27,
Hastert
was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison
for improperly structuring
payments to cover up the abuse.
In open court, a federal judge repeatedly
called him a
"serial child molester."