TIL there was a congressman named Michael Myers and he was ousted for corruption and not, you know, killing twelve other congressmen with a big knife.

The guy in the photo is Jim Traficant of you’d like to listen to an amazing podcast about him, his city (Youngstown, Ohio) and the mafia check out Crooked City: Youngstown . Here’s a news report on the podcast. And here’s the 2 minute trailer for the podcast.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Just a day after the US House of Representatives Ethics Committee issued a damning report detailing evidence of corruption and fraud by congressman George Santos, the panel’s chair, Michael Guest, introduced a resolution to expel the embattled New York Republican.

If the House approves the resolution - a high bar requiring a two-thirds majority - it would be only the sixth time the lower chamber of Congress has kicked out one of its own elected members.

The most recent expulsion occurred in 2002 and involved a colourful Democrat from eastern Ohio best known for his bad toupees and penchant for quoting the catchphrase “beam me up” from the Star Trek television series during congressional speeches.

The only other modern House expulsion occurred in 1980, as part of the sprawling federal FBI sting operation targeting public corruption and organised crime.

Investigators videotaped Michael Myers, a Democratic congressman from Philadelphia, accepting a $50,000 bribe from an undercover agent posing as a representative of an Arab sheikh, who was supposedly seeking political asylum and other governmental favours in the US.

In 2022, while working as a political consultant, the now-79-year-old former congressman pleaded guilty to participating in election fraud on behalf of his Philadelphia-area clients and was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.

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