congress income alcee hastings
  • Name: Alcee Hastings
  • Party/District: D-Fla
  • Average net worth: -$4.7 million

Rep. Alcee Hastings' 30-year-old legal bills are still weighing on him, making him one of the poorest members of Congress.

The Florida representative owes between $2.1 and $7.4 million in lawyers' fees that stem from when he was a federal judge and was charged with conspiracy and obstruction of justice for soliciting a $150,000 bribe in return for reducing the sentences of two mob-connected felons convicted in court. Hastings was acquitted in 1983 but was impeached by the U.S. Senate and removed from the bench in 1989, according to Senate records. Four years later, he was elected to the House.

He also owes between $100,000 and $250,000 on a mortgage for his Miramar, Fla. residence, according to his 2012 financial disclosure forms.

Hastings' only asset is a federal credit union account with between $1,000 and $15,000 in it.

First published January 27, 2014: 2:13 PM ET
Source: 2012 financial disclosure forms posted by the Center for Responsive Politics

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