{"id":1719076,"date":"2022-11-01T05:03:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T09:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719076"},"modified":"2022-11-01T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T09:03:42","slug":"sean-patrick-maloney-gave-taxpayer-funded-job-to-longtime-family-friend-with-no-political-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sean-patrick-maloney-gave-taxpayer-funded-job-to-longtime-family-friend-with-no-political-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Patrick Maloney Gave Taxpayer-Funded Job to Longtime Family Friend With No Political Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsean-patrick-maloney-gave-taxpayer-funded-job-to-longtime-family-friend-with-no-political-experience%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719076&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Dem congressman paid tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to husband&#8217;s &#8216;old friend&#8217; who simultaneously worked full-time as a magazine editor<\/p>\n<p>    Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 November 1, 2022 4:59 am  <\/p>\n<p>New York Democratic congressman Sean Patrick Maloney gave a taxpayer-funded job to a longtime family friend who had no political experience and simultaneously worked full-time as a magazine editor, records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney from September 2019 to July 2020 employed Hollywood journalist Kevin Sessums in his official office, according to House disbursement disclosures. On Facebook, Sessums has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevin.sessums.7\/posts\/pfbid0eJZH56XufPdTdfTcoAVZYvoF3Fo2HQXy2pJTMCfuAEmnJ6uRWo5pGZugqj3cy4kXl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevin.sessums.7\/posts\/pfbid01GiqTEAKR9v5oS5PRzsB6azo8PK4VsZ7yas9Xz32UEeNGjqY3dCbrtwv9zHdQ9XBl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boasted<\/a> of knowing Maloney and his husband, Randy Florke, &#8220;for 30 years,&#8221; and Sessums <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevin.sessums.7\/posts\/pfbid0eJEGvVGasrnBwYvTt4a56sPggYGRz7XCYmrxiswJnK1KBb46Lnt4eyeCJ2Yoif9wl\">regularly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevin.sessums.7\/posts\/pfbid0yYaMPPovWRHBj76Rp45mozrvyfQKr4VPC5aRkQVtGbaLmwk79umr9QcsdP1Ts2dxl\">refers<\/a> to Florke as &#8220;an old friend.&#8221; It&#8217;s unclear exactly what Sessums did in Maloney&#8217;s office\u2014the Democrat&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.house.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/documents\/SODs\/2020q3\/2020q3_singlevolume.pdf\">spending records<\/a> merely list Sessums as a &#8220;staff&#8221; member and offer no specific title\u2014but Sessums almost certainly did not work for Maloney full time. That&#8217;s because he worked as editor-in-chief of his own entertainment magazine\u2014sessumsMagazine.com\u2014during his entire time in Maloney&#8217;s office, according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kevin-sessums-02114429\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>, which does not mention his work for Maloney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Maloney, who is facing a surprisingly difficult reelection bid against Republican Mike Lawler, has used taxpayer funds to pay one of his husband&#8217;s personal friends. From March to October 2021, Maloney&#8217;s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-11259615\/Maloney-used-campaign-taxpayer-funds-pay-husbands-trainer-work-time-driver.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid thousands<\/a> to Erick Ramos, who also worked as Florke&#8217;s personal trainer at the time. The ordeal prompted a political headache for Maloney, with Lawler accusing the Democrat of thinking &#8220;that ethics rules don&#8217;t apply to him.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s what happens when you&#8217;ve been a Washington insider for too long,&#8221; the Republican&#8217;s campaign told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney paid Sessums, who did not return a request for comment, roughly $3,000 a month in taxpayer funds, allowing his husband&#8217;s &#8220;old friend&#8221; to pocket nearly $40,000 during the 10-month gig. Sessums wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/sessumsmagazine.com\/daily\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daily column<\/a> for his magazine as he collected the taxpayer-funded cash\u2014in some of those columns, Sessums detailed personal travel to <a href=\"https:\/\/sessumsmagazine.com\/2020\/01\/30\/daily-january-30-2020\/\">New Orleans<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sessumsmagazine.com\/2020\/02\/04\/daily-february-4-2020\/\">Mississippi<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sessumsmagazine.com\/2019\/10\/30\/daily-october-29-2019\/\">London<\/a> on days in which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorityleader.gov\/sites\/democraticwhip.house.gov\/files\/2019CALENDAR.pdf\">House<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorityleader.gov\/sites\/democraticwhip.house.gov\/files\/2020CALENDAR.pdf\">in session<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sessums&#8217;s job in Maloney&#8217;s office was his first in politics\u2014prior to his role as an apparently part-time House staffer, Sessums interviewed A-list celebrities as a Vanity Fair writer, a job he lost after a falling-out with his editor that led to &#8220;a long descent into substance abuse, followed by unemployment and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Democratic congressman Sean Patrick Maloney gave a taxpayer-funded job to a longtime family friend who had no political experience and simultaneously worked full-time as a magazine editor, records reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show.<br \/>\nThe post Sean Patrick Maloney Gave Taxpayer-Funded Job to Longtime Family Friend With No Political Experience appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1719081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}