Posted by
Defend America on Friday, December 11, 2009 12:48:21 PM
Max Baucus gave girlfriend $14K raise
By
MANU RAJU &
JOHN BRESNAHAN |
12/11/09 4:40 AM EST
Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), chairman of the powerful Senate Finance
Committee, gave a nearly $14,000 pay raise to a female staffer in 2008,
at the time he was becoming romantically involved with her, and later
that year took her on a taxpayer-funded trip to Southeast Asia and the
Middle East, though foreign policy was not her specialty.
Late last Friday, Baucus acknowledged his relationship with Melodee
Hanes, whom he nominated for the job of U.S. attorney in Montana, after
it was first reported on the website MainJustice.com. But he said that
Hanes withdrew from consideration for the job when the relationship
became more serious. The next day, he dismissed calls for an ethics
investigation, saying, “I went out of my way to be up and up.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30478.html