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In reply to the discussion: Who is the most infamous person you've met? [View all]RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)The first was Australian Member of Parliament who was actually the first politician I can remember meeting face-to-face. I met him at a function when I was 15 and I was initially very impressed. He was very friendly and encouraging of me as a young member of his political party
Less than a decade later, he was convicted and imprisoned for accepting bribes and sexual favors from Chinese immigrants in exchange for visas. What a lovely guy
Incidentally another person probably at that same function and definitely at other political functions I attended in subsequent years was another MP who seemed to be an up and coming rising star of his party. He represented an adjoining seat to the one where I lived. Surprisingly, I never met him face-to-face but I know he was at quite a few of the same functions I was at. Later, he was convicted and imprisoned for having sex with an underage boy, indecent assault and supplying heroin and cannibis. One of the teenagers he took advantage of sexually, he met at a political function like the ones I attended. Considering I was a teenager at the time, I might have had a lucky escape