On the morning of Friday, January 14, a single 34-year-old woman put an ad in the „Women for Men“ section of Craigslist personals. „Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?“ she asked, inviting „financially & emotionally secure“ men to reply.

That afternoon, a man named Christopher Lee replied. He used a Gmail account that Rep. Christopher Lee has since confirmed to be his own. (It‘s the same Gmail account that was associated with Lee‘s personal Facebook account, which the Congressman deleted when we started asking questions.)