district predecessor successor birth_name birth_place party term_end state_house birth_date term_start image article_title state name
1st 184th william barrett leland beloff tom foglietta leland beloff michael joseph myers philadelphia , pennsylvania democratic october 2 , 1980 november 2 , 1976 pennsylvania 4 may 1943 november 2 , 1976 january 5 , 1971 michael myers 95th congress photo.jpg michael myers -lrb- politician -rrb-
 pennsylvania michael myers
michael myers -lrb- politician -rrb-

michael joseph `` ozzie '' myers -lrb- born may 4 , 1943 -rrb- is a politician from philadelphia .
myers was a member of the pennsylvania house of representatives .
myers , a democrat , was elected to the u.s. house of representatives in 1976 .
myers had previously been a longshoreman .
he was regarded as a `` maverick '' from the very beginning of his tenure in office .
for example , in 1979 he got into a fight with a security guard and a 19-year-old female cashier in an elevator leading from the rooftop lounge of a quality inn motel in arlington , virginia , punching and kicking them , after he got angry at them after they told him to turn down the music at a party he was having in the motel , and was subsequently charged with assault and battery .
he eventually plead no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct three months later , and received a six-month suspended sentence .
myers is best known for his involvement in the abscam scandal in 1980 .
myers was videotaped accepting a bribe of $ 50,000 from undercover fbi agents on august 22 , 1979 .
on that tape , myers is recorded saying that `` money talks and bullshit walks . ''
myers was expelled from the house of representatives on october 2 , 1980 , by a vote of 376 to 30 , becoming the first member of the house to be expelled since 1861 ; the next to suffer this fate was democrat jim traficant in 2002 .
myers was defeated by thomas m. foglietta in the 1980 election .
myers was convicted of bribery and conspiracy and sentenced to three years in prison in 1981 .
