WASHINGTON - After nearly three weeks of hearing testimony about Mark Foley's inappropriate behavior toward former pages, House investigators appear to be reaching the end of their witness list.
A four-member ethics panel worked into the night Wednesday interviewing a senior aide for House Speaker Dennis Hastert. Ted Van Der Meid, who oversaw the page program for the speaker, testified for more than six hours.
Van Der Meid was part of a small group of staff aides and lawmakers who knew of Foley's too-friendly e-mails sent to a Louisiana teen last fall. The matter was handled quietly as then-Clerk of the House Jeff Trandahl and Rep. John Shimkus, R-Ill.
, confronted Foley, R-Fla., about his actions and instructed him to stop.
The panel is investigating whether lawmakers and staff aides acted properly when they learned of Foley's behavior.
It is expected to hear Thursday from Tim Kennedy, a more junior Hastert aide who last fall fielded the complaint about Foley from the office of Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-La., the former page's sponsor.
Kennedy alerted his supervisor.
Foley abruptly resigned Sept. 29 after being confronted with sexually explicit e-mails - instant messages - sent in 2003 to a former page from Oklahoma.
No lawmaker has acknowledged knowing of sexually graphic e-mails. They surfaced only after news broke about Foley's e-mail to the former Louisiana page. But a small group of lawmakers and top GOP staff aides have known for years of inappropriate messages and rumors of bad behavior by Foley toward pages.
For instance, former top Foley aide Kirk Fordham has told the committee that Hastert's chief of staff, Scott Palmer, knew of earlier incidents involving Foley.
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