Louisiana Republican Scandals | Updated List of GOP Scandals in LA

Used a notorious DC escort service at least five times as a US Representative while still married to his wife Wendy Vitter and after having spent most of his political career touting the importance of traditional "family values"

Forcefully grabbed and pushed back a citizen journalist filming him and other congresspeople giving a press conference outside the US Capitol as the victim yelled "you're hurting me!" while asking Higgins to let him go

Made out with one of his married congressional aides inside his office while he was married with five kids

Ran a stop sign and crashed into another vehicle, fled the area after exchanging information with the owner of the vehicle he hit and was later taken into custody after police caught up with him and were told he refused to take any field sobriety tests

Illegally used campaign funds to pay for various personal expenses including gambling debts, membership fees in fishing clubs and carnival organizations and numerous other personal expenses for his family and then falsely reported to state officials that the expenses were for campaign-related activities

Accepted over $45k worth of trips to attend professional golf tournaments from a private developer and city employee in exchange for giving them favorable treatment with city contracts and then didn't file tax returns in an effort to evade having to pay taxes on his ill-gotten money

Sent explicit texts to a 17-year-old boy asking if he and a 19-year-old friend of his would have three-way sex with him and for pictures of him in his underwear -- which may have violated a federal law designed to protect children from online obscenity even if it didn't violate his state's age of consent law -- leading to them eventually meeting in which he kissed him at a mall all while being married

Sexually molested at least three young children as young as 7 years old on different occasions at his home over a multiyear period