U.S Capitol Police announced Thursday that no one involved in an explicit sex video filmed in a congressional hearing room last year would be charged with a crime, after the video went viral on social media, and the Senate staffer apparently involved was left without a job.
In December, a video of a Senate staffer having sex in a Senate building went viral.
Capitol police said it consulted with both local and federal prosecutors to determine whether to charge the individuals who allegedly appeared in the video saying that “despite a likely violation of Congressional policy — there is currently no evidence that a crime was committed.”
One of the two individuals featured in the explicit video was believed to be a congressional staffer for Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) who had access to the hearing room, USCP said in a statement.
Neither the staffer, Aidan Maese-Czeropski, nor the other man in the tape have cooperated with authorities in their investigation, police said.
Cardin’s office did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment.
USCP said if new evidence were to “come to light” they would be willing to review it.
"I was angry, disappointed. It's a breach of trust,” Cardin told reporters about the incident.
In December, a graphic eight-second video of two men having sex in the Hart Senate Office Building was published by the conservative Daily Caller, and other conservative sites identified one of the men as Maese-Czeropski. Cardin’s office released a statement after the video was published saying Maese-Czeropski was no longer employed by his office, andMaese-Czeropski posted on LinkedIn that “some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgement,” but did not deny the allegations against him. The LinkedIn post has since been removed as has Maese-Czeropski’s account. Maese-Czeropski began working in Cardin’s office in October 2021.
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