Rep. Blake Farenthold has not yet paid back $84K for settlement
Source: CNN
By Sunlen Serfaty, Juana Summers and Deirdre Walsh, CNN
Updated 3:03 PM ET, Wed January 3, 2018
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Blake Farenthold said December 4 that he would pay back a $84,000
The money came from a taxpayer funded account to settle Hill office complaints
(CNN)Disgraced Rep. Blake Farenthold has not yet repaid $84,000 in taxpayer money for a settlement reached with a former aide who accused him of sexual harassment and other improper conduct, despite the Texas Republican's statement late last year saying he would do so.
Nearly one month after the initial statement, Farenthold's communications director, Stacey Daniels, tells CNN that he has not yet written a check, and on the advice of counsel is waiting to see what changes the House will make to the Congressional Accountability Act before repaying those funds.
On December 4, Farenthold told a local TV station, KRIS in Corpus Christi, Texas, "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. 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.'" But that check is on hold.......................................
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/03/politics/blake-farenthold-paying-back-funds/index.html
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watch what a Republican does, NOT what that Republican says they're going to do. They always seem to be two completely different things for some reason. 
I wonder why that is? I guess it's plain old hypocrisy, or their inherent insistence on lying about everything. Either way, a Republican is never to be taken at his/her word.
