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Lauren Aratani

New York congressman allegedly gave his lover a job – and his fiancee’s daughter, too

A politician speaks into a mic with a Trump-Vance sign on the lectern.
Anthony D'Esposito speaks in Uniondale, New York, on 18 September 2024. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

A Republican congressman from New York who narrowly won his seat in 2022 put his fiancee’s daughter and a woman with whom he was having an affair on his payroll, according to a New York Times investigation on Monday.

Anthony D’Esposito, who represents part of Long Island in the US House, paid the two women a total of about $29,000 for their employment, according to the Times. Both payments abruptly stopped in July 2023 when his fiancee found out about his affair and briefly broke up with him.

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