Word: frankness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The House ethics committee held its first discussion yesterday on allegations surrounding the relationship between U.S. Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) and a male prostitute, and Frank, meanwhile, canceled two speeches on ethics reform...
...presence of U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) at the hearing was a tip-off that Frank was being discussed. U.S. Rep. Chester Atkins (D-Mass.), a member of the ethics committee, with drew from the Frank case because Frank is a fellow Democrat from Massachusetts. Atkins said he could not render an impartial decision on various charges involving Frank's relationship with Stephen Gobie...
Ethics committee Chair Julian Dixon (D-Calif.) told reporters during a break in the hearing that "Atkins has recused himself on the Frank case and he will certainly not be present on the Frank case." Dixon has said earlier that Stokes would attend committee hearings only when Frank was being discussed...
...Frank has admitted that he paid Gobie $80 in 1985 for sex and subsequently hired Gobie with his own personal funds to serve as a housekeeper and driver from July 1985 through August...
Gobie has charged that Frank was aware he was operating a sex-for-hire ring out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment. He also alleged that he and Frank had sex in the House gymnasium. Frank has denied both of those charges...