More and more and more. From Copley News Service …
Long before Mark Beck-Heyman ever came to this town in 1995 to work as a congressional page, Congress had revamped the program in hopes of preventing the sort of sex scandals that had disgraced two congressmen more than a decade earlier.
Regardless, the former resident of San Diego’s North Park neighborhood learned almost from day one that there was one person to be careful of: Rep. Mark Foley.
âWhen I got there, I was warned about Foley from former pages and cloakroom Republican staffers,â said Beck-Heyman, who attended a Catholic high school at the time and was nominated for the page program by Republican Rep. Brian Bilbray, who then lived in Imperial Beach. âThe warning was to watch out for him.â
Two years later Tyson Vivyan came to town …
Tyson Vivyan was a congressional page from 1996 to 1997. Now 26, he tells NBC News that he knew Fla. Rep. Mark Foley somewhat during his brief Washington stay, but not well. It wasn’t until after he finished the congressional program and returned home to Tennessee, he says, that Foley began reaching out to him. Vivyan says that he began receiving instant messages in 1997 from someone with the moniker “maf54,” and that the messages were almost immediately sexual in nature.
I guess Denny Hastert was just the last to know.
