Republican Cronyism - Appointing Loyalists Over More Qualified Candidates

Hired a woman he was having an affair with for a part-time job in his local district office that four former employees say they never saw her show up to and only stopped paying her after his fiancée found out about the relationship and temporarily broke up with him, but not before taxpayers had already paid her $7,400 for work she likely never did

Used his local connections to get a taxpayer funded job in a local town village for his fiancée and a job with the local sanitation department for her son

Had a yearslong extramarital affair with a woman who worked for a Republican state senator and was able to keep it secret by using a fake Uber account to rendezvous with her and then facilitated her transfer to a job working for a wealthy business executive and donor he was criminally involved with

Had his parents pay his close friend and his friend's wife who he had an affair with $96,000 to keep them both quiet and used his influence to get his friend a corporate lobbying job, all of which resulted in him eventually resigning from the senate