Disgraced congressman not a pedophile: lawyer
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Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, at the center of a scandal involving explicit messages he sent to young aides in Congress, is an alcoholic gay man who was molested by a clergyman when he was a teenager, but has never had sexual contact with a minor, his lawyer said on Tuesday.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Oct 22, 2004 - A former priest at the center of a notorious molestation case a decade ago has incurable cancer and should not be locked up indefinitely as a dangerous sexual predator, his lawyer said.
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A House ethics panel has concluded  that Republicans failed to adequately respond to warnings about  a lawmaker blamed for the Internet sex scandal that shook the  U.S. Congress this year, a source said on Friday.
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Gen. Peter Pace declined today to apologize for saying that he believes homosexuality is âimmoral.â
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The top House Republican, under fire for his handling of a Capitol Hill sex scandal, gained support on Wednesday but new questions arose about when he was told of a former congressman's troubling behavior toward teenage boys.
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Monday defended his office's handling of questions raised about Rep. Mark Foley last year, saying the parents of a former male page were concerned about an e-mail Foley sent their son but didn't want the matter pursued.
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A lawyer for Roger Clemens said Saturday the pitcher can prove he didn't attend a June 1998 party at Jose Canseco's home described by Brian McNamee in the Mitchell Report.
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House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) was notified early this year of inappropriate e-mails from former representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to a 16-year-old page, a top GOP House member said yesterday -- contradicting the speaker's assertions that he learned of concerns about Foley only last week.
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A Republican U.S. senator  who admitted to &quot;serious sin&quot; after he was linked last week to  a Washington escort service apologized for the sex scandal on  Monday, but said he will go back to work.
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Brian McNameeâs lawyer  said that he was not pressured by investigators to name Roger Clemens.
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A lawyer accused of aiding terrorism  through her defense of a militant Muslim cleric on Tuesday  denied charges that she lied to the U.S. government by signing  a promise to honor rules aimed at stopping her client from  inciting violence.
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A prominent child psychiatrist pleaded not guilty Thursday to molesting his patients, after a judge ruled that there was enough evidence for him to stand trial.
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The top Republican in the US House of Representatives said he had been &quot;duped&quot; by disgraced ex-lawmaker Mark Foley, whose sexual solicitations of teenage aides in Congress he decried as &quot;vile,&quot; and &quot;repugnant.&quot;
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The South Dakota Senate on Wednesday censured a lawmaker accused of fondling an 18-year-old legislative page in a motel bed.
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President Bush has called House Speaker Dennis Hastert, under fire for his handling of the Mark Foley scandal, and "expressed his support," White House Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said. On Thursday, Hastert, R-Illinois, said he had "done nothing wrong" and would not step down over the controversy surrounding Foley.
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Prosecutors did not abuse their subpoena power in charging a former soldier with raping an Iraqi girl and killing her family, according to a court decision announced Monday.
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A Republican state lawmaker countered a Senate colleague's dispersal of an anti-polygamy book by passing out materials to fellow legislators defending the practice as natural and not necessarily harmful.