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Crime History: Congressman Mills caught with stripper Fanne Foxe

By Scott McCabe
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Crime History: Congressman Mills caught with stripper Fanne Foxe

On this day, Oct. 7, in 1974, U.S. Park Police pulled over Rep. Wilbur Mills, D-Ark., and exotic dancer Fanne Foxe, who leapt from the car and jumped into the Tidal Basin in D.C.

The spectacle led to the downfall of Mills, one of the most powerful men in Congress and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

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