Disgraced ex-congressman Blake Farenthold won't repay taxpayer money used in sexual harassment suit
AUSTIN — Former Corpus Christi Rep. Blake Farenthold says he will not repay $84,000 in taxpayer money used to settle a sexual harassment suit against him.
Farenthold told ABC News on Tuesday that he has no intention of repaying the settlement, despite vowing to do so months earlier.
"I will say this on the record: I have been advised by my attorneys not to repay that," Farenthold told ABC. "That's why it hasn't been repaid."
Meanwhile, Farenthold has accepted a lucrative position lobbying for a port in his South Texas district weeks after resigning last month, less than four months after dropping re-election plans under siege for crude and verbally abusive office behavior.
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