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Via The Hill:
Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) said Monday he intends to reimburse taxpayers for the $84,000 spent settling a sexual harassment filed by his former communications director.
“I’m going to hand a check over this week to probably Speaker Ryan, or somebody, and say ‘look, here’s the amount of my settlement, give it back to the taxpayers,’” Farenthold told Corpus Christi, Texas’s NBC affiliate.
Lauren Green sued Farenthold in December 2014, alleging that he fostered a hostile work environment involving sexual harassment and gender discrimination.
That suit was settled using taxpayer funds, but the sum involved was not disclosed until last week, as multiple lawmakers are facing accusations of past sexual misconduct.
“I want to be clear that I didn’t do anything wrong, but I also don’t want the taxpayers to be on the hook for this,” Farenthold said Monday. “And I want to be able to talk about it and fix the system without people saying, ‘Blake, you benefitted from the system, you don’t have a right to talk about it or fix it.'”