JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri state lawmaker allegedly had sex with an intern and then threatened a staffer to keep quiet about it, according to a House Ethics Committee report released Wednesday.
The Ethics Committee gave Democratic St. Louis Rep. Wiley Price until Wednesday afternoon to resign over the alleged misconduct or face being formally denounced and stripped of much of his legislative power.
He had not left office at the time of the report's public release.
Price fell under scrutiny after a staffer filed a report claiming that he told the staffer that he had sex with the intern after a Jan. 22 party at a bar near the Capitol building in Jefferson City.
Price attended mandatory House sexual harassment training about a week earlier. House policy forbids lawmakers from "romantic" relationships with interns, employees or anyone else they supervise.
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