Senators, congressmen, governors and presidents ... These people can also have their own secrets, and sometimes they change the law spouse ... But in their case, if the secret becomes clear, the consequences are usually very sad. Although, not always ...
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1838.jpg) 1. Left: Speaker John Boehner (left) greets the official Chris Lee and his family at the inauguration ceremony on Capitol Hill January 5, 2010. His wife Michelle holds the Bible, and his son Jonathan is standing. Lee resigned on February 9, after the network was photographed shirtless Lee, whom he sent the woman with whom he met in online Craigslist. The site Gawker.com posted a few emails with this woman. (AP, Gawker)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1741.jpg) 2. After the unauthorized absences within seven days of Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina admitted June 24, 2009, which flew to Argentina to meet with a woman. Married with four children, politician familiar with this woman for eight years. "What I did - wrong. Point ". (Davis Turner / Getty Images)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1644.jpg) 3. June 16, 2009, Senator John Ensign announced its association with a colleague, who was then one of his "right hand". Senator admitted in a relationship after a spouse has threatened to blackmail his women. (Isaac Brekken / AP)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1549.jpg) 4. Bob Woodruff interviews John Edwards, August 8, 2008 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The former senator of North Carolina and candidate for vice-president of the Democratic Party in 2004, admitted channel ABC News, that he lied about the relationship with 42-year-old Riell Hunter. At that time, he denied paternity of the child Hunter, but January 21, 2009, he said that he really is the father of Francis Quinn Hunter. (ABC News via AP)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1450.jpg) 5. Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer with his wife Silde Wall Spitzer's office in New York apologizes for "personal issues" March 10, 2008. «New York Times» speculated about its relationship with a prostitute. Spitzer resigned in the same week. (Shannon Stapleton / Reuters)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1358.jpg) 6. Senator Larry Craig of Idaho was charged with disorderly conduct after his arrest in June 2007 at the airport in Minneapolis. A police officer in civilian reported that Craig made obscene gestures, expressing his desire to have sex. Craig filed an appeal. He insisted that his actions were misunderstood and that he was not gay. He said he pleaded guilty, only to decide the case "is silent." (Troy Maben / AP)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1260.jpg) 7. Senator David Vitter admitted that in July 2007, called an escort service. The recognition came after the magazine «Hustler» said the senator's phone number was connected with this service. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1194.jpg) 8. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa with Mirtaloy Salinas, who then worked as a reporter on TV «Telemundo 52" in June 2006. Villaraigosa later admitted that he was in a romantic relationship with Salinas. (Robert Durell / EPA)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1066.jpg) 9. Officer Mark Foley abruptly resigned in September 2006 after reports that he was sending sms teen sexual content. The scandal with Foley helped Democrats take control of the House of Representatives in November 2006. (Lawrence Jackson / AP)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/949.jpg) 10. Dina Matos McGreevey beside her husband, Governor James McGreevey during his resignation announcement at a press conference in 2004 in Trenton, New Jersey. McGreevey acknowledged that he was homosexual, and that he had an affair with another man - Golan hissed (pictured right). McGreevey later wrote an autobiography "Recognition". And Dina Matos McGreevey wrote the book "Silent Partner" on their marriage. (AP photos)
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11. Republican Jack Ryan out of the race for seats in the Senate in 2004, when his wife - actress Jerry Lynn Ryan - filed for divorce, claiming that he brought her to "bizarre clubs" and asked to have sex in front of other people. Ryan denied it, but admitted that they went to the avant-garde club in Paris, where they were both at ease. Ryan's main opponent - Barack Obama - easily won the Senate seat for Illinois. (Stephen J. Carrera / ASSOCIATED PRESS) ![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/754.jpg) 12. Officer Bob Livingston was to become Speaker of the Parliament in 1998, but he had problems with his wife. He resigned from Congress after a couple of months. (Khue Bui / AP file)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/655.jpg) 13. U.S. President Bill Clinton denied under oath and, for all his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, but in the end only aggravated the situation. He was convicted of impeachment, and then acquitted in 1999. (APTV file)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/559.jpg) 14. Senator Bob Pekvud resigned in 1995 after allegations of sexual harassment by 17 female employees and colleagues, forcing lobbyists to find a job by his ex-wife, as well as in changes in their diaries, which impeded the investigation. (Nathaniel Harari / Congressional Quarterly / Getty Im)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/469.jpg) 15. Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank, in 1989, confirmed that his Washington apartment was used as a hangout for male prostitutes, calling for a half year before the end of 1987. So amateur guys Barney used his apartment as a place for guys call, to make some money on the side. Barney did not sit in jail and lost his seat in Congress, soon after winning re-election. (Terry Ashe / Time Life Pictures - Getty Image)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3102.jpg) 16. Senator Gary Hart was the first candidate to win a democratic election in 1988, but then the publication «Miami Herald» stated that he spent the night with a woman when his wife was out of town. Initially, Hart denied everything. But a sexual relationship with Donna Rice, which is then seen sitting on his lap on the yacht «Monkey Business», sunk his campaign. (Steve Liss / Time Life Pictures via Getty Ima)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/2137.jpg) 17. Officer Dan Crane (left) cries at a press conference in 1983. Crane asked for forgiveness from the families of his relationship with 17-year old girl. Jerry Stadds (right) on Capitol Nut, who was also accused of sexual relationship with a teenager. (AP file photos)
![](http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/1193.jpg) 18. Wilbur D. Mills officer with an exotic dancer (stripper) Fann Fox. Mills was in the center of a scandal in 1974 when police in Washington stopped his car because he did not include lights. Although Mills was not driving, he was drunk, and the Fox leaped out of the car who was right in nearby pond at the Jefferson Memorial. This episode has destroyed the career of Mills. (AP file) |