Michael Myers Politician - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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May 04, 1943 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States 81 years old

American politician

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About Michael Myers Politician

  • Michael Joseph "Ozzie" Myers (born May 4, 1943) is a politician from Philadelphia.
  • Myers was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
  • Myers, a Democrat, was elected to the U.S.
  • House of Representatives in 1976.
  • Myers had previously been a longshoreman.In 1979 he got into a fight with a security guard and a 19-year-old female cashier in an elevator leading from the rooftop lounge of a Quality Inn motel in Arlington, Virginia, punching and kicking them.
  • Myers became combative after they told him to turn down the music at a party he was having in the motel, shouting, "I'm a congressman: we don't have to be quiet." He was subsequently charged with assault and battery, and eventually pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct three months later.
  • He received a six-month suspended sentence.Myers was involved in the Abscam scandal in 1980.
  • Myers was videotaped accepting a bribe of USD$50,000 from undercover FBI agents on August 22, 1979.
  • On that tape, Myers is recorded saying that "money talks in this business and bullshit walks." Myers was expelled from the House of Representatives on October 2, 1980, by a vote of 376 to 30, becoming the first member of the House to be expelled since 1861.
  • Myers was convicted of bribery and conspiracy and sentenced to three years in prison in 1981.Myers was defeated by Thomas M.
  • Foglietta in the 1980 election.

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