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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....

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.

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.

John Pilkington's boss wouldn't take no for an answer. During more than two years as a food runner at an upscale steakhouse in Scottsdale, Ariz., Pilkington says his male supervisor groped, fondled and otherwise sexually harassed him more than a dozen times.

More seriously, they raised questions for both his company and CBS about whether his actions constituted sexual harassment or at least abuse of a power relationship over employees.