Congressman, why do you give your mistress a job? Congressman, do you have any comment? Do you have any comments on. - Do you have any comment on giving your. - Mistress a job? - Do you dispute the. - Facts of the story, sir? I'm happy to give a card to anyone who wants one. [00:00:15] - Congressman, can you please. - Do you have any comment on the story? Did you give your mistress a job? Congressman? How hilarious would it be if the congressman's phone just started ringing? Yeah, I know. [00:00:30] Because there's no way he's on the phone. I know there's 0% chance he's on the phone. All right, well, Republican New York Congressman Anthony Esposito is at the center of Capitol Hill's latest scandal. There's sex involved, misuse of taxpayer money, all the juicy details. [00:00:48] We're about to get into it. Hey, don't scroll away. Come back, come back. Because before the video continues, we just want to urge you to lend your support to tight u power. Our honest reporting. You do it at tight.com/team team and we love you for it. So The New York Times is reporting that the congressman added [00:01:07] his fiancee's daughter and mistress to his office's payroll. Real ballsy thing to do now. Shortly after taking the oath of office, the first term congressman hired his longtime fiancee's daughter to work as a special assistant in his district office, [00:01:26] eventually bumping her salary to about $3,800 a month, payroll records show. Now, believe it or not, you are breaking rules by doing that. We'll get to why and how in just a minute. But then he wasn't done. In April, Esposito added. [00:01:42] The woman he was having an affair with to his payroll as well, and that's according to four people familiar with the relationship. The woman, Devin Foss, collected $2,000 a month for a part time job in the same district district office, which, okay, let's pause for a second. [00:02:01] You've got his Fiancee's his fiancee's daughter working in the office, and then he's like, I'm boning another woman. Why don't I hire her to work in the same office while I'm cheating on my fiancee with her? [00:02:17] No, but these guys, like, okay, we need to do better as a country when it comes to electing people, because these. Okay, what a dummy. All right, look, I'm going to say the usual thing I say, but it's related to this. Remember, all these people got selected for their shamelessness because they're [00:02:34] the ones who raised their hands and said, I'll do anything for donor money. So we should never be surprised when a politician is caught in some sort of terrible, immoral, lying scandal. They lie for a living. Don't believe mainstream media that they're honorable, decent people. [00:02:50] They're the worst of us. So records show that payments to both women, the daughter of his fiancée and his mistress, stopped abruptly several months later, in July of last year. And that was, Around the time that Dr. Esposito's fiancée found out about [00:03:09] the affair and briefly broke up with him. Briefly is an unfortunate word in this context, but I'll continue his employment. Of the two women used up about $29,000 in taxpayer funds, and now he is facing some questions about what happened and could hypothetically face discipline [00:03:27] in the House of Representatives. Let's all pause for laughter. I don't think he's going to face any consequences. - Let's keep it. - Real. They're like, oh, you were shamelessly lying. Like, wait, was there a donor involved? Can we get in on this action? Oh, it was just sex. Wait, what's her number? That's how that House Ethics Committee is going to work. 100%. [00:03:44] The House Ethics Committee. Think about it. It's like, you know, whenever there's a bad, bad cop who shot and killed an unarmed person, it's like, oh, we're doing an internal investigation. Yeah, your internal investigation will go nowhere. And that's what usually happens with House Ethics Committee investigations. [00:04:00] So there's another story in the rundown today that I'm not sure we're going to get to. But where the House Ethics Committee was investigating this lobbyist, taking advantage of certain loopholes, etc. And then the head of the House Ethics Committee counsel stepped down and started working for those lobbyists. [00:04:16] - My God. - The corruption is just there. Like there's nobody guarding the hen house, right? Everybody in mainstream media lies for us and pretends there is no corruption and that we're all honorable people having intellectual debates. Hey, everybody, bring out the mistresses. [00:04:32] So also, believe it or not, there is a House Code of Conduct that prohibits members of Congress from employing spouses or relatives, including stepchildren. Though D'esposito has never married, congressional ethics experts said [00:04:49] that employing a woman akin to his stepdaughter, who shared a home with him, could breach the requirement that members of Congress adhere to the spirit and the letter of the rules. Now, a separate provision adopted in the wake of the MeToo movement explicitly states [00:05:07] that lawmakers may not engage in a sexual relationship with any employee of the House who works under the supervision of the member and obviously his fiancee. His mistress was working, you know, under the direction of his member. [00:05:23] And so. There might be an investigation, there might be an investigation into this. I look, I don't know if it's really going to lead to anything. That's my prediction on this. But he also dodged questions from reporters but broke his silence today [00:05:39] with the following statement. Quote, my personal life has never interfered with my ability to deliver results for New York's fourth district, and I have upheld the highest ethical standards of personal conduct. How do you like your junior congressman? Like, what have you done for the people of New York so far? [00:05:56] Like, okay, he continues the latest political tabloid garbage being peddled. But did you or did you not employ your mistress. Like he's on the phone? Anna. Okay, all right. That's right. Couldn't get a comment. All right, but he denies, denies, denies, denies. He says that it's tabloid trash. [00:06:12] It's a Partizan hit piece designed to distract Long Islanders from Democrats failing record on border security. - What border in Long Island? - The economy and foreign policy. We can we can definitely chew gum and walk at the same time. [00:06:28] Yeah, we can talk about the border down in Texas and still say that you're corrupt. But I like that. He's like, you're distracting Long Islanders from the border issues they're having in Long Island. With what? Brooklyn. Manhattan. Who are they having border issues with? [00:06:44] By the way, notably, he did not deny the allegations. He just said that the reporting was tabloid trash. I see. Okay. And by the way, this kind of corruption happens 24 over seven. The only reason why it's receiving any attention is because there's sex involved. [00:07:00] Yeah, there's a mistress. There's there's an affair. And look, I got to say, at this point in the digital age, it is just increasingly shocking to me that any public figure thinks that they can have an affair and get away with it. [00:07:16] You will get caught, I guarantee it, and then we'll have a fun story to talk about on the show. Yeah, that's for sure. Yeah. And one more thing about that, guys. This type of thing where they hire their family members is the oldest scam in D.C.. That's why the ethics committee isn't going to do anything. [00:07:31] Because if you look into the ethics committee, I'd be surprised if they didn't do it here as well. So the two stories that always reminded of is Norm Coleman was the senator from Minnesota, Republican, of course. Biggest hypocrites, not the Democrats. Don't do it. Republicans do it in spectacular style with massive amounts [00:07:47] of hypocrisy thrown in. So Coleman, had one of his donors hire his wife. Okay. And then you're going to be shocked to find out she never showed up to work and got a huge salary. And Norm Coleman voted the way that they wanted him to and got a giant check on top [00:08:07] for his campaign. How do I get a job like that without sleeping with a politician. Well, look, you know, you find some donor and there's a way to make that happen. I mean, they're all so. Orrin Hatch, legendary Republican senator from Utah for decades. [00:08:24] His son was a lobbyist, and he would vote for every bill for based on whoever hired his son. And his son made millions and millions of dollars for the family throughout all those years and since. He was an esteemed senator and due respect and honor and all [00:08:41] that stuff, nobody ever said a word. But those are just two out of like, thousands of examples. Washington is like a vat of corruption. And the funny thing is that there's all these reporters inside Washington. They're like, we don't see it. I can't corruption, where is it? Oh, George Santos. That's George Santos and that's it. [00:08:58] Oh, Trump a little bit. Okay. - But otherwise I don't see anything. - Yeah. And George Santos was so outrageous in his antics. And even him, they caught him after he won the election. Right right right right right. Exactly. It would have been useful to, you know, find that information during the election.