The former Senate staffer accused of being filmed having sex in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room is an environmentalist who has been rising through the ranks of the Democratic Party since he was a teenager and has a history of posting racy comments. of tone on social networks.
Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24, was fired from retiring Sen. Ben Cardin’s (D-Md.) office over the weekend following leaked reports from a private WhatsApp identifying him as one of the men filmed having public sex in a committee room. group to the person he calls daily.
The allegations ended Maese-Czeropski’s two-year run in the senator’s office, and the 24-year-old recently enjoyed a new position as an assistant to Cardin’s foreign policy, tax and trade team, according to his account. LinkedIn.
Maese-Czeropski, originally from California, first joined Cardin’s office in October 2021 as a staff assistant.
She took on the role after a six-month fellowship at Friends of the Earth, a UK-based nonprofit organization focused on environmental research and activism.
Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24, is an environmentalist who interned and worked for Sens. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). Facebook/Aidan Maese-Czeropski Maese-Czeropski’s face allegedly appeared visible in an explicit video filmed in a Senate hearing room.
Maese-Czeropski has a bachelor’s degree in social and environmental sciences and attended the University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources. She also studied global environmental change and sustainability at Johns Hopkins University.
He always seemed to have an interest in politics, having worked as an intern in the office of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) during the summer of 2018.
Before that, he served as news editor for Palo Alto High School’s Paly Voice newspaper, where he wrote an editorial in 2016 calling on voters to elect Hillary Clinton.
After graduating from Berkeley in 2020, Maese-Czeropski served as a field organizer for the Virginia Democratic Party, campaigning for President Biden in Loudoun County.
He also worked on the state’s Latino outreach program, “All with Biden,” to help register thousands of Spanish-speaking voters.
Maese-Czeropski appeared in a campaign video with Joe Biden while working as a field organizer in Virginia. @JoeBiden
During his time as a field organizer, Maese-Czeropski also appeared in a 2020 campaign video with then-candidate Joe Biden.
Unknown to Biden, the young Democrat he had posed with tends to make lewd comments on his now-deleted Venmo account.
A post from March 5, 2020 read, “I want Joe Biden to spit in my mouth.”
Other posts from the time show payments with memos claiming they were for “strip dancers,” a “pineapple-shaped dildo,” and “sexual favors.”
Maese-Czeropski made off-color comments about Biden before working on his campaign in Virginia. Venmo/Aidan Maese-Czeropski
The risqué posts appeared to come to a head with the leak of the X-rated video showing Maese-Czeropski having sex with another man in the same room where senators question Supreme Court nominees and where former chief FBI’s James Comey testified about alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the Spectator reported Friday.
“Aidan Maese-Czeropski is no longer employed by the United States Senate. “We will have no further comment on this personnel matter,” a Cardin spokeswoman told The Post following news of the video.
The US Capitol Police have since launched an investigation into possible criminal violations after the video began circulating.
The employee appears to have since deleted his X account.
Maese-Czeropski admitted he showed “lack of judgment,” but claimed in a social media post that he is being victimized by the video.
“I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace,” he wrote. “Any attempt to characterize my actions otherwise is fabricated and I will explore what legal options are available to me in these matters.”
The Post has not been able to reach Maese-Czeropski for comment.
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