Disgraced ex-lawmaker in underage sext scandal finally dissolves committee: report

Remember Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), who in 2006 resigned in disgrace following a sexting scandal with an underage congressional page? He had technically kept open his campaign committee, which once had a 7-figure surplus. Today, in a letter to the Federal Election Commission obtained by Raw Story, Friends of Mark Foley reported donating almost all of its remaining cash to charity — including $1,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County in Florida. In all of those years the committee had been active, it wasn’t entirely going unused. A report earlier this year indicated that Foley was sti…

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