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Married, sent pictures of himself (claiming to be single) to a person on craigslist.
Three hours after the story was posted he resigned.
UPDATE:
Married, sent pictures of himself (claiming to be single) to a person on craigslist.
On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the "Women for Men" section of Craigslist personals. "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?" she asked, inviting "financially & emotionally secure" men to reply.
That afternoon, a man named Christopher Lee replied. He used a Gmail account that Rep. Christopher Lee has since confirmed to be his own. (It's the same Gmail account that was associated with Lee's personal Facebook account, which the Congressman deleted when we started asking questions.)
By email, Lee identified himself as a 39-year-old divorced lobbyist and sent a PG picture to the woman from the ad. (In fact, Lee is married and has one son with his wife. He's also 46.)
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The woman says she cut off contact when she searched for Lee online and concluded he'd lied about his age and occupation. Then she forwarded us the correspondence.
Three hours after the story was posted he resigned.
UPDATE:
Spoiler
The woman in question:
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/politics/article340288.ece
"Callahan, a single mother who works for the University of Maryland and maintains the blog flyblackchick.com, had tried to remain anonymous since Wednesday, when the online gossip website Gawker published Lee's embarrassing photo and the e-mail exchanges between Callahan and Lee.
But after the Washington Post tracked her down and published her name, she agreed to talk to The News about the bizarre events that led to Lee's resignation."
http://www.buffalonews.com/city/politics/article340288.ece
"Callahan, a single mother who works for the University of Maryland and maintains the blog flyblackchick.com, had tried to remain anonymous since Wednesday, when the online gossip website Gawker published Lee's embarrassing photo and the e-mail exchanges between Callahan and Lee.
But after the Washington Post tracked her down and published her name, she agreed to talk to The News about the bizarre events that led to Lee's resignation."
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