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Kirk Fordham told The Associated Press that when he was told about Foley's inappropriate behavior toward pages, he had "more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene." The conversations took place long before the e-mail scandal broke, Fordham said, and at least a year earlier than members of the House GOP leadership have acknowledged.
voting record), R-NY Fordham spoke to the AP after ABC News quoted unidentified GOP sources as insinuating that he had intervened on behalf of Foley, his former boss, to prevent an inquiry into Foley's conduct. "At no point ever did I ask anyone to block any inquiries into Foley's actions or behavior."
FBI and the House ethics committee "any and all meetings and phone calls" regarding Foley's behavior that he had with senior staffers in the House leadership. "The fact is even prior to the existence of the Foley e-mail exchanges I had more than one conversation with senior staff at the highest level of the House of Representatives asking them to intervene when I was informed of Mr Foley's inappropriate behavior," Fordham said.
Tom Reynolds, R-NY, prepares to speak a fundraiser in Amherst, NY, Wednesday, Oct. Reynolds' top aide, Kirk Fordham, a past aide to former GOP Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, resigned Wednesday amid the uproar over Foley's Internet exchanges with former teenage pages and Hastert's handling of the problem.
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