Foley: Self-Made Criminal?

In addition to being a dirty middle-aged man, former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), the Icky Emailer, is also a hypocrite, co-chairing the Missing and Exploited Children Caucus, introducing bills and generally identifying himself as anti-child-sexploitation.

He may also be a criminal, thanks to laws he got passed to expand the definitions of child sex offenses using the internet, ABC now says.

And his proclivities may have been known about, but covered up. One former page told ABC News that his class “was warned about Foley by people involved in the program.”

In addition to the emails revealed yesterday, Foley also engaged in online chatting with teenage boys in the congressional page program. ABC has published some of the cleaner exchanges between Foley and former pages. See them — after the jump.

Here’s a sample, courtesy of ABC:

Maf54: You in your boxers, too?
Teen: Nope, just got home. I had a college interview that went late.
Maf54: Well, strip down and get relaxed.

Another message:

Maf54: What ya wearing?
Teen: tshirt and shorts
Maf54: Love to slip them off of you.

And this one:

Maf54: Do I make you a little horny?
Teen: A little.
Maf54: Cool.

“The language gets much more graphic, too graphic to be broadcast, and at one point the congressman appears to be describing Internet sex,” ABC reports.