What if someone, say a certain current Senator from say, Idaho releases a preemptive denial about a gay congressional page scandal as a freshman congressman in 1982, but then was never named because the page recanted. Then, say this said Senator winds up twenty-five years later being embroiled in a brouhaha over solicitation in a men's room.
Does that preemptive denial mean anything besides being a slightly humorous blunder by a freshman congressman? Arkansas' NWAnews.com went back to the source of that page scandal and learned this:
Twenty-five years ago, North Little Rock teenager Leroy Williams Jr. helped set off a congressional sex scandal. He told federal authorities that, while serving as a congressional page, he had had sex with three House members and procured homosexual prostitutes for a senator, a congressional aide and a Government Printing Office employee. [...]
Then, Williams recanted, saying he had made up the story because he wanted to draw attention to the lack of supervision in the page program.
No one was charged, and most news outlets never named the accused.
But Williams’ former attorney, Bob Scott of Rogers, confirmed in a telephone interview this week that one of the congressmen Williams claimed to have had sex with was Republican Larry Craig of Idaho, now a senator in his 27 th year in Congress.
Apparently Craig and his staff were way out in front on this one.
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