Headline Roundup • December 17th, 2023
Senate Staffer Loses Job After Allegedly Filming Sex Tape in Capitol Hill Hearing Room
Summary from the AllSides News Team
A leaked self-filmed video showed two men having sex in a Senate hearing room, one of whom is reportedly Aidan Maese-Czeropski, a staffer for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD).
The Details: The video, which was first circulated in a “group for gay men in politics,” was published by The Daily Caller (Right bias) on Friday. Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by Cardin’s office, and Capitol police are investigating the matter.
Key Quotes: Maese-Czeropski posted on LinkedIn saying, “while some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgment, I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace. Any attempts to characterize my actions otherwise are fabricated and I will be exploring what legal options are available to me in these matters.” Cardin’s office said it was a "personnel matter" and that “Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the US Senate.”
How The Media Covered It: Forbes (Center bias) noted that hours before the Daily Caller story broke, The Spectator (Right bias) reported an unnamed Cardin staffer posted a nude photo of himself on social media in the same hearing room. Fox News (Right bias) said Maese-Czeropski could face criminal charges. Overall, left- and center-rated sources covered the story less prominently than right-rated sources did.
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The United States Senate was rocked by a gay sex tape scandal after a video of two men engaged in an explicit sex act in a Senate hearing room appeared online.
U.S. Capitol Police told Fox News they were aware of an amateur pornographic video published by the Daily Caller late Friday. The extremely graphic footage shows someone identified as a congressional staffer having sex with another man on the dais in hearing room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building.
The identities of the men in the video have not been confirmed....
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A legislative aide for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) is no longer employed by the Senate, according to Politico, after he was publicly connected to an explicit video that emerged Friday of two men having sex in a congressional hearing room, and after he admitted on social media he had shown ”poor judgement.”
Cardin’s office said in a statement to Politico that Aidan Maese-Czeropski was no longer employed by his office, but did not provide additional details on the “personnel matter.”
A graphic eight-second video of the Hart Senate Office Building sex scene...
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A Senate staffer accused of filming himself having sex in a congressional hearing room is threatening legal action after getting fired.
The explicit footage, published by the Daily Caller on Friday, shows two men having sex in what appears to be Hart 216, the judiciary room. Aidan Maese-Czeropski, a legislative aide for Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland, was widely named on social media as one of the men in the footage.
Cardin’s office told Politico that “Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the US Senate”.
Capitol police said they were aware...
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