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EXCITING STATE SCANDALS

Pennsylvania’s Beauty Queen/Fake Job/Cigar Store/Car Sex Scandal

Exclusive photo of the concerned partiesHey, here is a sexy state scandal while we wait for Hopey to set up his podium ‘n stuff! Pennsylvania State House Majority Leader H. William DeWeese might have to resign because his chief of staff allegedly hired some youngster he (the chief of staff, Michael Manzo) was banging to do pretty much nothing for $30,000 a year. Because all these people are Democrats, it’s a boring heterosexual affair, and while this story could be improved if the gal had been making, oh, ten times that pitiful amount, we’ll work with it. Hilarious details after the jump.

  • Angela Bertugli, the woman in question, was Waynesburg’s Miss Rain Day 2001.
  • Ah, hmm, what else. This, from tipster “Mike”: “He met the young woman in a bar and after screwing her in his car, he put her on the state payroll.” (This is a good tip because it rhymes, and it is about car sex.)
  • Oh yowch this from the grand jury: “In a retrospective review of the above-described events, Bertugli concluded, with certainty, that Manzo hired her because she was having sex with him.”
  • This young intern lady also got her apartment paid for and a $7,000 bonus, even though she admits she was spending “70 percent of the time” doing law school homework. Hey, at least she was in law school! And doing her homework!
  • This woman performed her fake job from an office above a cigar store in Pittsburgh. That’s glamour.
  • DeWeese’s defenders are wondering WTF any of this has to do with him.
  • Smith calls for DeWeese to resign [The Almanac]
    Former beauty queen was ‘smart, active’ as college student [Times Online]


    12:12 PM on Thu July 24 2008
    By Sara K. Smith
    7875 Views

    1. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:16 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Hot Chevy on Mercury action.

    2. Dr. Spaceman says at 12:17 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Well played Miss Rain Day.

    3. sanantonerose says at 12:19 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Hey, I think I found the real story here. Why were there TWO Miss Rain Days in 1991?

    4. V572625694 says at 12:20 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Do we have to do all the work around here?

      http://www.waynesburgchamber.com/images/misc/pastmissRD/bertugli.jpg

      Wow, she looks too trailer-trashy to be a barrister. Maybe a barrista, though.

    5. V572625694 says at 12:21 pm, July 24th, 2008

      And by the way, “Miss Rain Day” has got to be the hottest pageant since “Little Miss Greenbelt.”

    6. WagTehGod says at 12:22 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Because nothing says “I bang you” like a $30K per year job.

      Eliot Spitzer’s whores earn that in a few hours

    7. 4everjung says at 12:23 pm, July 24th, 2008

      The Miss Rain Day tradition has been besmirched by this trollop. I believe an emergency Waynesburg Chamber of Commerce meeting is needed to address this.

    8. MrAgro says at 12:24 pm, July 24th, 2008

      V572625694: In case that link doesn’t work here’s one from Tinypic:

      http://i36.tinypic.com/4jnq4j.jpg

      30 grand and a free apartment sounds pretty steep for such a garden variety hick of a girl. Perhaps she indulged Manzo in special kinks…like “making it rain” on him.

    9. KevoTron says at 12:25 pm, July 24th, 2008

      She’s hot in that “I’ve only been smoking meth for a couple of months” way.

    10. angryhippopotamus says at 12:25 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Why would you send me to that image? Why? I thought we were friends.

    11. mookworthjwilson says at 12:26 pm, July 24th, 2008

      V572625694: Or a spokeswoman for the hair club for women…check out the receding hairline…

    12. MoodProcessor says at 12:27 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Let’s say they, on average, did the deed 4x per week. She made say 144.25 per boink.
      How many diamonds does she qualify for?

      btw, in that photo, she’s hiding a cig behing her back

    13. thefrontpage says at 12:27 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Thanks for referencing this story in The Beaver County Times!

      It’s a good thing that there isn’t much corruption these days in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Michigan, Maryland, Washington, D.C., West Virginia and Connecticut! Just what the hell is wrong with all of these people?

    14. StripesAndPlaids says at 12:27 pm, July 24th, 2008

      If she was hired for sex, and she says she spent 70% of her time doing law school work, does this mean she was reading for class while having sex? Does it mean she got all Torted up for work?

    15. thefrontpage says at 12:28 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Wait–who said this girl isn’t cute? She’s definately cute.

      Beauty’s in the eye of the beholder–and the Chief of Staff.

    16. shortsshortsshorts says at 12:29 pm, July 24th, 2008

      ATTENTION ALL PENNSYLVANIA SENATORS AND ASSEMBLYMEN:

      FOR HIRE:

      Young, attractive, intelligent aspiring law student. Will go down on you for $$$$$$. Flexible hours. Tight ass. Republicans need not inquire.

      - shorts -

    17. S.Luggo says at 12:30 pm, July 24th, 2008

      From the Philadelphia Inquirer:
      “July 19, 2008
      HARRISBURG - The former local beauty queen at the center of a Capitol job-for-sex scandal continues to work for the state. Angela Bertugli is being paid $45,344 a year as a legislative researcher …”

      ****
      Waynesburg’s loss is the Commonwealth’s 2 Diamond researcher.

    18. Monsieur Grumpe says at 12:32 pm, July 24th, 2008

      “Doing law school homework” I’m not familiar with that metaphor.

    19. MrAgro says at 12:33 pm, July 24th, 2008

      45 grand? yay she got a raise!

    20. liquiddaddy says at 12:34 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Spitzer spent that much just explaining why he didn’t want to use a rubber.

    21. Boo_Boo_Hoff says at 12:36 pm, July 24th, 2008

      DeWeese is the guy who pulled perks from several of his fellow Democrats a few years ago because they refused to accept pay raises voted by the legislature in the dead of night.

      Now I see what the pay raises were going for.

    22. masterdebater says at 12:37 pm, July 24th, 2008

      #0 grand is cheap for full time sex. What’s the problem?

    23. Aurelio says at 12:39 pm, July 24th, 2008

      MoodProcessor: One whore diamond.

    24. Schadenfried says at 12:41 pm, July 24th, 2008

      V572625694: Not for PA, she doesn’t.

    25. Not_So_Much says at 12:44 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Sure, she looks like she was rode hard and put up wet, nine miles of bad road — pick your own skank analogy.

      But, People, she’s willing to have sex in a car after meeting some douche in a bar! If that doesn’t say “Government Payroll”, well, then I just don’t recognize Amurka’ and more…

    26. Doglessliberal says at 12:50 pm, July 24th, 2008
    27. PeteJayhawk v2.0 says at 12:55 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Jeez. Check out the beak on that bird.

    28. PeteJayhawk v2.0 says at 12:55 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Check out the beak on that bird!

    29. loudmouthredhead says at 12:56 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Ya gotta do who ya gotta do…
      So, she assumed her position after the bangin’, not before?

      I sense much potential in this young one. Future governor?

    30. Sara,
      You’re welcome. It just makes me proud that my home state is the kind of place where a girl can dream of parlaying a Miss Rain Day crown into “doing law school homework.”
      Mike

    31. S.Luggo says at 1:02 pm, July 24th, 2008

      V572625694: She wears her diamonds well.

    32. S.Luggo says at 1:03 pm, July 24th, 2008

      For you pathetic losers who actually have a Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/people/Angela_Bertugli/68800596

    33. loudmouthredhead says at 1:05 pm, July 24th, 2008

      V572625694: Meh, I’d still hit that. :)

    34. Maj. Major Major Major says at 1:26 pm, July 24th, 2008

      I take it she’s Miss Rain Day cos she never gets in the sun….

    35. Accordion-o-rama says at 1:32 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Thanks for the shot of the Pennsylvania Automotive Museum.

    36. ALIVE! says at 1:37 pm, July 24th, 2008

      I dub her “Pennsylvanienne.”

    37. Deepthroat says at 1:51 pm, July 24th, 2008

      i used to work with all these fuckers up in da House… I never really did see why all the ladies liked Manzo… Also, didn’t think this “Bonusgate” scandal was Wonkette-worthy… Damn, i missed my chance to finally become an ‘operative’!

    38. Mista Eko says at 1:55 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Is this Rain Day Woman number 11 or 35?

    39. Mista Eko says at 1:57 pm, July 24th, 2008

      12 dammit! 12! Twice today I’ve failed at numerically related postings!

    40. MountainMama says at 2:00 pm, July 24th, 2008

      MoodProcessor: I don’t think you need full on whore “diamonds” for this one, I’m pretty sure you can just use some rather convincing CZs, she won’t know the difference

    41. Deepthroat: Only Miss Rain Day saved Bonusgate from obscurity.

    42. Deepthroat says at 2:01 pm, July 24th, 2008
    43. FreshCliches says at 2:24 pm, July 24th, 2008

      I’m one who is perpetually wishful that stories of scandal in PA drag out as long as possible. Why?

      Budd Dwyer.

    44. V572625694 says at 2:25 pm, July 24th, 2008

      loudmouthredhead: Well, yeah. A thing can be hittable without being admirable. Or, as Mozart put it: “Believing and shitting are two very different things.

    45. ladymacbeth says at 3:21 pm, July 24th, 2008

      this whole rain day thing creeps me out in ‘the lottery’ type way.

    46. schvitzatura says at 10:49 pm, July 24th, 2008

      MoodProcessor: Broken down further, that works out to $14.42/hour.

      Miss Rain Day, if she was in Kaleefownkneea today would be receiving the hourly wage of 2 and 1/5 state workers, if Ahnuld has his druthers…

    47. schvitzatura says at 11:02 pm, July 24th, 2008

      Cloistered in a garret above these reprobate fucks all day and night, in between getting schtupped by Manzo.

      And I want cinematic and television rights to the whole shooting match (domestic and international)…think of all the times Angie Bertugli got bored and stopped downstairs, if only to tell these jackholes to turn down the volume on their plasma while she was studying for her Torts II midterm.

      Comedy gold!

    48. josereyes.theroof says at 9:22 pm, July 27th, 2008

      But did Manzo pay for her abortion?

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