http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_JenretteJenrette is most famous for two actions during his days as a Congressman. First, he had sex with his then-wife, Rita Jenrette, behind a pillar on the steps of the Capitol Building. The comedy group "Capitol Steps" take their name from this escapade. Second, he was charged with and convicted for accepting a $50,000 bribe in the Abscam sting operation conducted by the FBI in 1980. Jenrette was sentenced to two years in prison, of which he served 13 months. He had not been videotaped taking bribes, as some of his colleagues had, but he was recorded saying he'd been given cash by an associate. His wife, Rita, separated with him in January of 1981 and the two divorced later the same year...
Jenrette was defeated for reelection in 1980 and resigned from Congress on December 10, just days before the end of his term.
Rita Jenrette:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_JenretteRita Jenrette (born November 25, 1949) first came to the public eye as the wife of John Jenrette, congressman from South Carolina from 1975 to 1980. John Jenrette was implicated in taking a bribe during the Abscam investigation and his wife testified at the hearings, describing how she found $25,000 in one of his shoes.
She appeared on the Phil Donahue show while he was in jail, and he called in live to join. She gave an interview to Playboy magazine in 1981, and appeared naked in their pages and on the cover in May 1984. The first of these interviews caused a scandal, as she told Playboy that she and her husband had had sex on the steps of the U.S. Capitol during a break in an all-night House session...
...She separated from her husband in January 1981 and divorced him shortly after her first Playboy appearance.
Rita Jenrette on the cover of Playboy in May 1984
Art Buchwald, Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_08/011856.php