Aaron Schock, America’s favorite absolutely-not-at-all-gay former Congressman and Instagram addict, has only been out of his Downton Abbey-inspired office a few weeks, but he’s already the political equivalent of a dead man walking. Schock’s problems continue to mount as he faces new legal problems. If Schock thought that resigning from office would solve his problems, he couldn’t have been more wrong than if he decided to follow diver Tom Daley to establish his heterosexual cred.
In the past few days, five new major headaches emerged from the ab-conscious Schock.
1. His former staff have been summoned to testify to a grand jury about Schock’s profligate spending habits. Four former staffers have been subpoenaed to tell the grand jury what they know. When the choice comes down to saving their skin or saving their former boss, whom do you think the quartet will protect?
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2. He’s being sued by a donor for fraud. Howard Foster, a Chicago lawyer, donated $500 to Schock’s campaign in 2012. Foster has now filed a lawsuit against Schock, alleging that Schock “willingly followed well-tread paths of political sleaze for personal gain.” Foster’s lawsuit says that Schock violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruptions Act (RICO), which is more often used against mobsters than Congressmen.
3. He’s run up more than $300,000 in legal bills. The latest report from Schock’s now defunct campaign fund shows a tab for $313,919 owed to the law firm of Jones Day. That’s just one of several firms that Schock has engaged for his legal defense.
4. He was spending like crazy right up until the end. The same campaign report shows that Schock was dropping big bucks for luxury items almost to the end of his tenure. On the principle that he was entitled to the finest that his donors could buy, Schock spent $4,000 at a luxury hotel in Europe, more than $3,000 for gifts at Tiffany’s and more than $42,000 in travel expenses.
5. He’s being billed for the special election his resignation necessitated. To add insult to injury, the Marshall County, IL, board is asking Schock for $76,000 to cover the cost of a special election to fill Schock’s vacancy. The board insists it doesn’t have that kind of money on hand. In reality, it’s a sign of how little it has to fear from Schock.
At this point, people can’t distance themselves far enough away from Schock. He has the stench of indictment about him, whether it comes to pass or not. It’s pretty clear that there’s still worse to come. Schock’s learning that if you want a friend in politics, buy a dog. Of course, if he had, you know it would have been a designer breed.
Cam
And remember Congress new what he was doing, he didn’t hide it and nobody said anything. Only that Downtown Abby article focused attention enough so that voters started asking questions.
Why didn’t anybody in Congress or their enablers in the media say anything before? Probably because they don’t want anybody looking at their spending. Schock was just extra stupid about it.
James Reyes
If it talks like a queen, looks like a queen, and spends like a like a queen…..It must be a muthafÃ?©®â??Ã?[° queen #justsayin
AxelDC
Schock’s favorite film must be Last Holiday. He’s spending like Queen Latifah’s character when she thought she had only a few days to live.
Resigning was probably a poor decision on Schock’s part. He was pretty hard to touch as a US Congressman, except by the House ethics committee. As a private citizen, he is fair game to all levels of law enforcement, plus he is now vulnerable to private lawsuits. While he is obviously a talented politician, he seems to be a terrible life strategist.
Dale Landefeld
Sad….way to eager to climb the political ladder….
Daniel Salmeron
He’s welcome to hide out at my house and recover lol
Matthew Chaney
Maybe he could get $1 million dollars for doing gay porn?!
Ronbo
Good. Ine crook down. About 425 to go! Until we go with actual Democracy, our “Representatives” will continue to lie, cheat and steal.
martinbakman
Surprised Congress hasn’t exempted themselves from federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruptions Act (RICO) and exempted all their cronies as well.
Shawn McNeill
Steve Peña get to working your magic this guys going to need $$$$$
Alex Rothwell
He should just come out already. The sounds like a total dirt bag.
tdx3fan
Ahh, girl is going to be popular at Club Med. Maybe they can give him Martha’s old cell, and she can come decorate it for him.
Seriously though, he is definitely a scum bag, corrupt, closet case that voted against gay rights, but every single person in office is at least a little corrupt. Most of them time you are voting for the lesser of two evils.
Desert Boy
All these debts mean Aaron will be forced to do gay porn to raise $$$ in the very near future. Who will buy?
Cam
@martinbakman: said… “Surprised Congress hasn’t exempted themselves from federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruptions Act (RICO) and exempted all their cronies as well.”
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To a certain extent they have. Much of what Schock did, could have been legal if he did it slightly differently because of Congress’s rules.
radagastthe3rd
All that matters is that he is kinda hot and I want him in bed ^^
chaddyboy6
Charles Wrangel a democrat evaded taxes etc and was just censured by Congress. Oh wait that is because he is a democrat and the Congress was in democrats hands. Ummm….you all cry and clamor about fairness…so where is the fairness now?
oh and of course the shyster Wrangel is still in office.
BJ McFrisky
Nothing like a (presumably) gay Republican to bring out the hate in the “tolerant” gays community.
Bravo, my rainbow-inclusive brethren. Bra-freaking-vo.
Cam
@BJ McFrisky: said… “Nothing like a (presumably) gay Republican to bring out the hate in the “tolerant” gays community.
Bravo, my rainbow-inclusive brethren. Bra-freaking-vo.”
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And once again, BJ’s only concern is to protect anybody who votes and speaks out against gay rights. In this case, also somebody who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from his constituents.
BJ, when your only concern is to protect a bigot, who is also a thief, you should really reevaluate your priorities.
onthemark
@BJ McFrisky: Who says we’re “tolerant”? Did Rush Limbaugh make that up? Seriously, I want to know where this libelous canard came from! Being tolerant is not automatically a good quality.
@Cam: Cam, that’s astonishing. Pouncing on BJ in only 8 minutes! He should know by now that he’s not the Roadrunner, he’s Wile E. Coyote. He must be wearing out his UPS driver with all the deliveries from Acme Inc.
TrueWords
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48H34ukFe8g
Aly Son
Good. Exploiting tax payers. I hope hes bankrupt for years, and has to work minimum wage jobs bc of his reputation. #karma
Alec Mapa
This guys a real creep. A closet queen with a record of anti-gay voting. We’re our own worst enemy.
Michael Martinez
If he had just been honest about his life he could have avoided all of this. But once you tell yourself one lie, you just keep lying until you wind up in jail or dead.
jwtraveler
He resigned from congress. Can’t we just forget about him?
Cam
@chaddyboy6: said… “Charles Wrangel a democrat evaded taxes etc and was just censured by Congress. Oh wait that is because he is a democrat and the Congress was in democrats hands. Ummm….you all cry and clamor about fairness…so where is the fairness now?”
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Does everybody notice that when the Log Cabin guys come in here, they will never….ever….ever just shut up and admit that anybody from their party did anything wrong? No, they want to always portray them as a victim.
Hey Chaddy, Rangel paid the penalties, but since he didn’t leave Congress he was exempt from the personal lawsuits that Schock will get hit with.
Secondly, Schock didn’t just avoid taxes (But nice try trying to pretend that their crimes were the same). Schock committed major financial fraud, theft, and passible violations of the Federal RICO law.
But remember, you are a gay GOPer, so your job is to never admit ever than anybody in the GOP did anything wrong, your only job is to always defend, them, and to cover for how anti-gay they are.
So nice job.
Cam
@jwtraveler: said… “He resigned from congress. Can’t we just forget about him?”
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Why? So he can make a sweethart deal when the cameras are off and basically get away with it?
Bear Aspirin
Meh…he’ll just start a GoFundMe/Kickstarter campaign and all those Memories Pizza idiots will bail him out in no time.
MarionPaige
What if Schock actually is Gay? Have you all stopped to consider that?
If he actually is Gay, then all of THIS WITCH HUNTING will go down as an example of how A Gay Man abused the public trust. Certainly if Schock is Gay he will be cited by The Conservatives as a Bad Gay more likely than a Bad Republican – especially since he clearly is no longer an elected Republican. And,
Filing a Federal RICO against Schock over a $500 political donation come across as being somewhat outrageous.
Krystoffer A Viau
I guess Karma finally found Schock!
Billy Budd
He deserves this. He invited this situation.
Cam
@MarionPaige:
If we do not call out somebody who is a thief, a fraud, and steals public money and trust, just because they might be gay, then we are no different than BJ and the other Lob Cabiners who will protect and defend anybody from anything as long as they are a republican.
Nixter
@Billy Budd: Exactly. He deserves this as he’a an immoral, greedy, (probably closeted) gay man, and he throws everyone under the bus. Disgusting psycho, like all politicians.
stonrdude
His arrogance and ego brought all this forward. Schock made his won bed and has to lay in it. A good congressman does not have all the perks he does.
PARKAVMAN
Unless he comes ‘out’, I find very little of interest except another crooked congressman.
wpewen
This person has a very hard road ahead, from which it will be very difficult to recover. The money issue shows clear sociopathy, period. It is generally lower with gay than straight men, I’d suggest he is in fact gay, technically ego-dystonic (hates his homosexuality) and sociopathic (doesn’t care about ripping people off).
Then there’s the intangible “karma” attached to his trip. You would not want to be him. And, he will drag out any homophobic energy people have, they will go twice as hard on him, don’t doubt it.
SteveDenver
When Irish Soccer Football Star Cathal McCarron found himself facing gambling debts, he did gay porn, and oh did he ever!
Dinodogstar
I swear i saw that bish make a guest appearance in this video,,check out the queen at station number 4, in this beauty parlor …! https://wwww.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF6-OUTqtc
gjg64
They are just going to loooooooooooooooooooooove him in prison!
Celtic
@SteveDenver: Oh, HOW LOW they will go! LMAO.
Dinodogstar
I swear i saw that grrl make a guest appearance in this video..check out the queen at station number 4, in this beauty parlor… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiF6-OUTqtc
Celtic
As delicious — and I DO mean delicious –Schock looks and as suspicious as I am about his being “totally straight”, at this point we gays likely would prefer that Schock NOT be gay. Our community carries enough negative hate baggage without Schock adding his shit to the pile. However, in the meantime I will fantasize about all the things I’d do to this criminal hottie while holding him down naked. Might I say, “Schock and raw”??? >EG<
Ron King
Disgrace to the fine upstanding gay community.
Realitycheck
@Cam: Well said!!!
James Sigmon
Aaron Schock comes out in his next book
maxdadmark
Not all good looking men are gay. This guy is a narcissist, meeting several of the diagnostic criteria. I don’t know why you shallow queens speculate on his sexuality. He’s in love with one person… himself.
Cam
@maxdadmark:
I love the people that seem to think that gay people are so blind and stupid that “Oh, all goodlooking men are gay”.
Gee, here is an idea…the guy is nearly mid-30’s. He is a politician, a group known for shenanigans with women, he is unmarried, no girlfriend, not even pictured with any women, says he’s “Too busy”, travels with a “Photographer” that doesn’t take pictures but is in most of them standing next to them, and they stay in VERY nice accommodations.
So in a town where so many politicians have time for a spouse AND a mistress “or at least regular visits to whore houses…yeah I’m looking at you Senator Vitter” Schock, who has NEVER ONCE introduced or been the sponsor of principle legislation claims he is too busy to date.
Oh yeah, but we all think he’s gay because he’s “Good Looking”.
Low Country Boy
@jwtraveler: No.
pattyboy101
I keep asking why anyone cares? Is it because some people find him attractive? He is just another politician that got caught doing stupid stuff… Move on please – report things that matter… Like the new 2016 Tom Daley calendar!
derek mcgillicuddy
Queerty, you have no sense of proportion. Whom do you protect, and whom do you throw to the lions? You remind me of the workers for IG Farben who built the crematoria at Buchenwald and were the first to be put in the ovens. Do you have no loyalties at all? What ever happened to compassion and understanding? And we gay men who have suffered so much in our lives from ignorance and misunderstanding from the hegemonic society, now that the queer world has become that society, do we not remember where we came from?
Shame.
Lawrence Gisonda
I’m sure some company would hire him for gay porn and help with the bills….
hrnpip
He’ll find a sugar daddy to pay off his bills and he’ll eventually come out.
Celtic
@Lawrence Gisonda: Hell, I hope so! I’d rent the vid. Especially if he bottoms. >WG<
ryuichi
If he gets sent to jail, can I be his cellmate?
maxdadmark
@pattyboy101: second that
Evji108
@radagastthe3rd: Closet cases may be fun in the sack but when you run into them at Target they don’t know you.
Tom Remillard
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. I’m sure he can tap some of his rich teapub friends.
Mack
@chaddyboy6: Schock chose to resign, he wasn’t made to resign nor was he charged. Wrangle(?) Rangel chose not to resign and wasn’t forced nor charged. But when you’re a Republican and you run on a fiscally conservative ticket you better be fiscally conservative in your spending. Ranget’s constituents choose to keep him and voted for him again. Had Schock ran again, would his constituents supported him? Name one Congressman/Senator that didn’t profit from being elected to office? There are none. They’ve all bent the rules and many bent them in very wrong ways but still get away with it.
tomron
@MarionPaige: If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: We Gays reserve the right to have just as many scoundrels, bums, charlatans, a**ho**s proportionate to our numbers as the entire population at large. If Schock did turn out to be gay, so what? A scoundrel is a scoundrel is a scoundrel…..
no matter what flavor!
Giancarlo85
@chaddyboy6: Lying liar Log cabin types are back. Spewing more falsehoods. For every corrupt Democrat you name, I can name ten corrupt Republicans. Hoe about all the Republicans who were under investigation from the Bush administration? Like Scooter Libby?
You lying hypocrite Republicans are back at it. Distortion, lying and fabricating. Rangel has never been charged with anything nor did he resign. I am so sick of you LCR types infesting this site. You post stupid one sided garbage to defend antigay Republicans. Go fuck yourselves, you self hating bigots.
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: *distorting.
So what other bull shit do we need? Schocck resigned and could be under federal investigation. If this was a just world, Schock would be sent to prison.
frickeepoo
So the guy paid enormous amounts to have his office Downton Abbey-fied. Since when is bad taste against the law?
NoCagada
@jwtraveler: Are you REALLY that ignorant?
Captain Obvious
Personally I don’t care that much and don’t really get why so many internet gays are so rabid over her… but SHE SHOPS AT TIFFANY’S! AHAHAHA!
Why are people still waiting for a coming out announcement? SHE SHOPS AT TIFFANY’S!
Giancarlo85
@frickeepoo: Oh yes. Another dull one on here. What else is new? Misusing public funds is against the law. You’re about as dumb as a rock.
Jack Anthony Owen
Thats why hes a piece of s**t
markgtx11
@wpewen: Personally I think he suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder, which IMO is VERY common among gay men.
1. Feels grandiose and self-important.
2. Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, omnipotence, beauty, etc.
3. Convinced he or she is unique and special and that others must regard him as such.
4. Requires excessive admiration and attention.
5. Has a strong sense of entitlement.
6. Is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., uses others to achieve his/her ends, regardless of the consequences to others.
7. Is devoid of empathy. Is unable to experience genuine concern for the rights and needs of others. Only his own needs matter.
8. Constantly envious of others and tries to hurt or destroy the objects of envy.
9. Behaves arrogantly and haughtily. Because he is so special, he does not believe rules apply to him and may rage when contradicted or confronted.
Maleko
@AxelDC:
‘Talented Politician’ AlelDC, really?
Ra Hill
He might try “Gay For Pay”… but he probably is already at the point of being “In The Closet”… so can’t make too much that way! Maybe he can get one of the Koch Brothers to become his “Sugar Daddy!” Or maybe Warren Buff It !
Geoff Prince
how long will it be before he starts a ‘go fund me’?
Cam
Anybody notice that the same people on here saying “Why should we pay attention to any of this, move on”, are the same people on the Hillary Clinton post talking about how bad she is, but not saying who they’d rather vote for”.
Stealth Log Cabiners.
AxelDC
@Maleko: To be fair to Schock, he got elected to Congress in his 20s without any family connections. Most 20-somethings elected to Congress are just taking daddy’s old seat.
He was a rising star in the GOP, but he made some very foolish decisions. As we know from Hollywood, talent and wisdom are two very different assets.
jsmu
Let’s see: a worthless, infinitely greedy beeyotch of a closet queen who happily joins anti-gay votes and deliberately commits financial fraud so his little cryptofaggot butt can have more expensive things?
Put the little whore in general population for twenty years!
Celtic
“Cryptofaggot”. That’s a creative term. I like it! But perhaps it should be change to “Kryptofaggot” in honor of Kryptonite!
Giancarlo85
@Cam: Aren’t they annoying? We have several nasty trolls on here who will defend any republican… criticize HIllary, and not say who they are voting for. But I’m willing to bet that many of those idiots are going to vote for Jeb or Rand Paul.
@AxelDC: Some? He made many foolish decisions…
The only people who should really care about Schock are the ones he stole from. His constituents. Hopefully Schock faces a few indictments and is forced to return some of the money he stole.
TemptyK
Who’s Aaron Schock and what’s this obsession with him?
Pete
Calling Sean Cody!
This is going to sound strange, but how much ya wanna bet he’s still a virgin? His background isn’t just ‘Christian’, his sect are as rigid as Mennonites minus the beards & buggies.
Pete
Wouldn’t it be awesome if Sean Cody offered him 100K to lose is virginity on line to one of their more donkey-dicked models like Randy, Curtis, or Brooks?
Curtis & Schock actually have quite a bit in common.
James Hart
I’m sure that once he’s in prison, he’ll become some guy’s hot bitch.
Reginald Augustus Salazar Magpayo
Finally a high profile gay political criminal!
Cam
@Pete:
Oh no, he is the worst kind of closet case. He has been sleeping with guys all along, and yet voting against gay rights to get elected and steal tax money. An incredibly cynical and disgusting individual.
Paul Proulx
Come out of the closet already.
Robby Robinson
Karma………………….you get what you serve. So now eat it.
Clark W Cowles
He is dead politically and otherwise.
Lee Bess Toad
Danny Ray
He’s such a great looking guy! But, I know Karma is something he has learn to be deal with for all of the mistakes he has made in the past!!!
ScottOnEarth
If he looked like Barney Frank, no one would care. He may have brought much of this on himself but I’m never happy for someone else’s misery.