A congressional staffer from the office of Republican Representative Dan Newhouse has been implicated in a scandal involving the alleged filming of explicit homosexual acts within the U.S. Capitol in 2022.
This comes on the heels of a similar incident involving Aidan Maese-Czeropski, a 24-year-old Democrat congressional aide who was dismissed after filming an amateur gay pornographic film in a Senate hearing room. Maese-Czeropski was formerly employed by Senator Ben Cardin, a Democrat from Maryland.
According to Semafor, the staffer from Newhouse's office is under investigation for allegedly recording two explicit videos on Capitol grounds. The first video purportedly shows the male staffer engaging in a solo sexual act in a House office building, while the second allegedly depicts him having sex with another man in a different office.
The staffer, who has categorically denied the accusations, is said to have uploaded the explicit content to his Snapchat story under the pseudonym "Adam J," with the official account handle being "Anjackson2019." The videos were identified due to recognizable features of the House office building, including the carpet and furniture.
Despite these allegations, a spokesperson for Newhouse stated that the investigation found "no evidence to the allegation" of what was described as "purported, unbecoming behavior." The staffer, who remains anonymous, was not dismissed but voluntarily left his position in the fall of the same year, as reported by the Daily Mail.
The spokesperson for Newhouse added, "As soon as the office was alerted, we immediately contacted the appropriate House entities to conduct an independent investigation."
In a separate incident, an explicit video of Maese-Czeropski obtained by the Daily Caller showed him engaging in anal sex with an unidentified man in the Hart 216 Senate hearing room. The video, which was leaked to the Daily Caller after being shared with a private group for gay men in politics, depicted two naked men engaged in a sexual act.
Following the incident, Maese-Czeropski admitted to showing "poor judgement" and was subsequently dismissed. He later claimed on LinkedIn that he was being targeted "for who I love to pursue a political agenda."
Prior to the scandal, Maese-Czeropski had worked as a congressional staffer for over two years and is an alumnus of the University of California Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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