title: LAWMAKER REVEALED: Settled $84K Sexual Harassment Case Using YOUR Tax Dollars
text: Another politician using your money to pay off a sexual harassment settlement Can you believe it? Blake Feingold is on the right in the onesie jammies. What was he thinking?Here s a photo of him with clothes on:Rep. Blake Farenthold used taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment claim brought by his former spokesman   the only known sitting member of Congress to have used a little-known congressional account to pay an accuser.Lauren Greene, the Texas Republican s former communications director, sued her boss in December 2014 over allegations of gender discrimination, sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.When she complained about comments Farenthold and a male staffer made to her, Greene said the congressman improperly fired her. She filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, but the case was later dropped after both parties reached a private settlement.Read more: Politico