Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BARNEY Frank '62 (D-Mass.) said Sunday he would not resign from Congress because of his 1985-1987 relationship with prostitute Steven L. Gobie. Frank has admitted that he paid Gobie and other male prostitutes for sex, hired Gobie as a personal assistant and then used his Congressional position to void some of Gobie's parking tickets. Still unproven are charges that Frank knew that Gobie was operating a prostitution ring out of his home...
Even in his darkest moment, Frank respected his unique responsibility as a legislator. Although he had the power to do otherwise, Frank paid Gobie out of personal and not Congressional funds. Frank says he used his own money to pay for the parking tickets Gobie accrued when not on official business...
...journalist (Susan Sarandon in an underdeveloped role) and a weary, canny lawyer, played by Marlon Brando. In his first movie role in eight years, Brando is shockingly bloated in appearance, but his full authority as an actor is mobilized by a part in which he obviously believes (he was paid union scale...
...home, Alaska Governor Steve Cowper and state environment commissioner Dennis Kelso called a press conference in Valdez. They named the "dirty dozen" beaches that they charge are still fouled with oil and announced their own modest $21 million winter cleanup program, at least part of which will be paid for by Exxon. The message to the company was clear: You didn't get the job done, and you're leaving too early...
...this information in a 1984 newspaper story. Other questions aroused Wilkinson's interest as a reporter. Among them: Is it not odd that a major domestic cash crop should be so heavily dependent on imported black labor? What is going on down there? For the next four years, Wilkinson paid a number of visits to South Florida trying to find...