After serving his five-year Army commitment, he entered the reserves, retiring in 2008 as a lieutenant colonel. Nice pension!
Shimkus earned a teaching certificate from Christ College, ia a member of Holy Cross Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Collinsville, IL.
2006 House page scandal
Shimkus said that in late 2005 he learned — through information passed along by the office of Representative Rodney Alexander (R-La) — about an e-mail exchange in which Foley asked about the well-being of a former page, from Alexander's district, after Hurricane Katrina, and requested a photograph.<1> Shimkus and Jeff Trandahl, the Clerk of the House, responsible for administering the program, met with Foley in 2005 after learning of the emails. Foley was ordered to cease all contact with the former page and assured Shimkus he would do so.
Shimkus did not share the information with Rep. Dale E. Kildee, the only Democrat on the three-person Page Committee ... "I'm the chairman of the page board", Shimkus said when asked why he didn't include Kildee. ... he talked to the pages about how adults make bad choices. He encouraged the pages to talk to mentors in the system about any concerns they might have. He also told the pages that he had not known anything about the scandal, and that if he had known about it, he would have acted. He later came out with information that he had known about e-mails sent by Mr. Foley to young pages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shimkus
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