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<\/a>Democratic Rep. Katie Hill, left, with Graham Kelly (Facebook)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
By Isabel Vincent
\nNew York Post<\/p>\n
The married California Congresswoman under fire for her\u00a0steamy \u201cthroupling\u201d with an aide<\/a>\u00a0paid a male staffer she allegedly slept with the highest bonus she doled out to aides working on her campaign, federal documents show.<\/p>\n California Rep. Katie Hill, who is under probe by the House Ethics Committee for the reported affair with the staffer, Graham Kelly, also continued to pay a female campaign worker she and her husband were romantically involved until at least last month.<\/p>\n Kelly, the legislative director in the Democratic Congresswoman\u2019s Washington DC, office, received a $5,100 \u201c2018 election bonus\u201d on April 27, according to Federal Election Commission records.<\/p>\n Kelly was one of only four campaign workers who received bonuses, which started at $2,700. His was the highest.<\/p>\n The openly bisexual Hill admitted last week to an \u201cinappropriate\u201d relationship with the female campaign worker, who allegedly engaged in the three-way affair with Hill and her now estranged husband Kenny Heslep. Hill has said she ended the throuple over the summer.<\/p>\n Hill paid the woman, Morgan Desjardins, 24, more than $14,000 as a campaign consultant since April. Those funds came in addition to more than $50,000 Desjardins earned after she started working for Hill in 2017, federal records show.<\/p>\n Left to right: Graham Kelly, Katie Hill, and Morgan Desjardins — Facebook<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n The kinky allegations, along with racy photos and text messages, were\u00a0made public last weekend by RedState<\/a>, a conservative blog. One of the photos shows Hill and Desjardins, who was identified by the Daily Mail last week, locked in a passionate kiss. The newspaper\u00a0published nude pictures of Hill<\/a>\u00a0combing Desjardins\u2019 hair, holding a bong and sporting an Iron Cross tattoo on her bikini area. Hill\u2019s lawyers have denied the tattoo is related to any Nazi imagery.<\/p>\n Hill, 32, has vehemently denied she was romantically involved with Kelly, 31. Heslep first made the accusation on a social media post last summer when he filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court.<\/p>\n Hill has been \u201csleeping with her [male] finance director for the past year at least,\u201d Heslep posted to his now-deleted Facebook account earlier this year, in a reference to Kelly, RedState reported.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact is I am going through a divorce from an abusive husband who seems determined to try to humiliate me,\u201d Hill said in a letter to her constituents last week.<\/p>\n Kelly raised more than $8 million for Hill\u2019s 2018 campaigns. He began in May 2017 during a primary contest in which Hill faced three other Democratic challengers, and then went on to work on the general-election campaign.<\/p>\n In the early days of her campaign, Hill worked with Kelly and a small group of campaign workers in Kelly\u2019s California apartment, according to \u201cShe\u2019s Running,\u201d a 2018\u00a0VICE documentary series<\/a>\u00a0about the race.<\/p>\n House ethics rules say members of Congress cannot engage in sexual relationships with a subordinate employee.<\/p>\n Calls to Hill\u2019s office were not returned last week.<\/p>\n