Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) has hired a high-powered Washington lawyer as ethics hearings on the legislator's relations with a male prostitute are expected to get under way this week...
...Frank, meanwhile, is showing no signs of laying low as he takes to the House floor for the first time since scandal broke and has maintained a full schedule of events in his Massachusetts district. And in the past two weeks a legal defense fund set up in the Democrat's name has begun receiving contributions...
Washington attorney Stephen Sachs, a former U.S. attorney in Baltimore and a former Maryland attorney general, said yesterday that his job as Frank's lawyer before the House Ethics Committee will be to separate fact from fiction...
...Frank, a five-term House member and a leading liberal in Congress, admitted paying male prostitute Stephen Gobie $80 for sex in 1985 and subsequently hiring Gobie with personal funds to serve as a house-keeper and driver from July 1985 through August 1987. Frank had acknowledged he is gay well before the Gobie scandal...
Gobie has leveled various charges against Frank that the lawmaker has denied. Among those are that Frank knew Gobie was running a prostitution ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment and that Gobie and Frank engaged in sex at the House gymnasium...