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Former congressman Eric Massa said Saturday that someone forged a $40,000 salary increase for his chief of staff, who has accused the ex-lawmaker of sexual harassment....

Former New York congressman Eric Massa wrote a $40,000 check to his chief of staff shortly before resigning his seat last month ...

Just three months after Eric Massa was elected to Congress, his young male employees on Capitol Hill began complaining to supervisors that the lawmaker was making aggressive, sexual overtures toward them, according to new interviews and internal documents.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) dismissed as "absurd" retired Rep. Eric Massa's (D-N.Y.) claim that his resignation -- offered amid an investigation into charges that he sexually harassed younger male staffers -- was also forced as an effort to boost the chances of passing President Obama's health-care legislation.

Rep. Eric Massa, D-N.Y., admitted that he made a sexually-charged comment to an aide but implied that Democratic leaders used the investigation to pressure him to resign before the House holds a close vote on health care legislation that Massa has opposed.

New York Rep. Eric Massa will resign his House seat on Monday at 5 p.m., he said in a statement Friday, a move that comes just days after he announced his plans to retire at the end of the year.