Foley's conduct as revealed to date goes back to at least 2001. The Republican supervisor of the Republican pages warned them about Foley in 2001; the Democratic pages got no warning. 16-year-old boys left hanging in the wind by the Rethugs.
Hastert was caught lying about what he knew; now he admits he knew about the first set of emails.
Thomas Reynolds (R-NY), the National Republican Campaign Chair, who was the second Republican member of the House to learn about Foley's inappropriate emails, gave Foley $5,000 after he learned of them, then accepted $100,000 from Foley into the NRCC war chest.
I think Hastert will be the first casualty; even some right wing bloggers have called for him to resign.
ABC News: GOP Staff Warned Pages About Foley in 2001
A Republican staff member warned congressional pages five years ago to watch out for Congressman Mark Foley, according to a former page.
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Several Democratic pages tell ABC News they received no such warnings about Foley.
ABC News: FBI Opens "Preliminary Investigation" of Foley
Daily News Politics Blog: Reynolds Knew, But Gave?
Reynolds's personal PAC, TOMPAC, wrote Foley a check for $5,000 on May 10, 2006.
According to the AP, Reynolds was told of the allegations against Foley "sometime this spring."
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UPDATE: Also: On July 27, 2006, the NRCC, which Reynolds chairs, accepted an unusually large contribution of $100,000 from Foley. Hard to imagine something of that size just slipping past the chairman.
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