Back to day one. From WaPo …
In 1995, male House pages were warned to steer clear of a freshman Republican from Florida, who was already learning the names of the teenagers, dashing off notes, letters and e-mails to them, and asking them to join him for ice cream, according to a former page.
Mark Beck-Heyman, now a graduate student in clinical psychology at George Washington University, and more than a dozen other former House pages said in interviews and via e-mail that Rep. Mark Foley was known to be extraordinarily friendly in a way that made some of them uncomfortable.
And then from the Times …
Federal investigators who have interviewed several former pages have unearthed instances of conduct by Mr. Foley that will almost certainly lead to a full criminal investigation, including grand jury testimony, to determine whether the former lawmaker violated federal sex crime laws, government officials briefed on the matter said Tuesday. They spoke on the condition that they not be named because they were discussing details of an investigation.
Prosecutors have yet to issue subpoenas or search warrants but have discussed ways to safeguard evidence in the case, the officials said, possibly issuing what are known as preservation letters, directing government agencies or private entities, like Internet providers, not to destroy any electronic data that might be relevant.
And so on …
