Tawdry Tales Depict a Texas Congressman’s Frat House on the Hill

The following article by Sheryl Gay Stolberg was posted on the New York Times website December 11, 2017:

Two former aides to Representative Blake Farenthold, Republican of Texas, described his office as freewheeling, yet also filled with fear. Credit: Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters

WASHINGTON — When Lauren Greene, a former communications director for Representative Blake Farenthold, sued him claiming sexual harassment, among her complaints was that he “disclosed that a female lobbyist had propositioned him for ‘a threesome.’”

Mr. Farenthold, in legal documents, said that Ms. Greene had it wrong. The woman wasn’t a lobbyist, he said. Continue reading “Tawdry Tales Depict a Texas Congressman’s Frat House on the Hill”