A U.S. Senate staffer was terminated for filming an explicit video on a table inside a Senate hearing room in the state Capitol building.
Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24, was fired by Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin on Saturday. Cardin made the announcement on Twitter/X.
“Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the U.S. Senate. We will have no further comment on this personnel matter,” a spokeswoman for Cardin told The New York Post.
Maese-Czeropski appeared in an ad for President Biden days after he won the 2020 election.
The graphic video leaked on Friday and went viral on Saturday. It showed a man wearing only a black thong while being sodomized on a table in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room.
The video clip was filmed in the same room where Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings were held in 2020 and 2022 respectively.
The video was first posted in a chat room reserved for gay lawmakers and others in Washington, DC.
The video was also posted on Maese-Czeropski’s alternate Twitter/X account under the username @Andre. The Twitter/X account was public when the video was posted, but it was locked on Saturday morning and deleted by Saturday evening.
Maese-Czeropski’s face is clearly visible in the video, but he insisted it was not him in a message posted on Linked-In Saturday morning.
Maese-Czeropski claimed he was being attacked for who he loved. “I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace,” he wrote.
He also denied confronting Jewish Rep. Max Miller and yelling “Free Palestine” in his face.
Many suspect that former Rep. George Santos leaked the video. He was kicked out of Congress in a historic vote on Dec. 1, and vowed to expose lawmakers and staffers on his way out the door.
“Having sex in a United States government building and filming it is the reason you got heat. You being gay and having gay sex NO BODY gives a rats ass,” Santos wrote on Twitter/X.
D.C. police are investigating whether Maese-Czeropski broke any laws.
