UC Berkeley grad accused of filming sex tape in Senate hearing room

A UC Berkeley grad has gained national attention for allegedly filming a sex tape in a U.S. Senate hearing room.

The Daily Caller, a conservative media outlet, reported Friday that a congressional staffer had filmed a video having sex in a Senate hearing room but did not identify the staffer.

He was later identified online as Aidan Maese-Czeropski, a legislative aide for Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Maryland. Maese-Czeropski graduated from Palo Alto High School and UC Berkeley, according to his LinkedIn profile.

The Chronicle has not independently confirmed the authenticity of the video or the identity of the individuals in it.

After the Daily Caller article was posted, Maese-Czeropski released a statement on LinkedIn, saying he had been “attacked for who I love to pursue a political agenda.”

“While some of my actions in the past have shown poor judgement, I love my job and would never disrespect my workplace. Any attempts to characterize my actions otherwise are fabricated,” he posted.

Maese-Czeropski did not explicitly confirm or deny whether he was the man seen in the video.

According to his LinkedIn profile, he graduated from Palo Alto High School before attending Johns Hopkins University for two years and then transferring to UC Berkeley.

Maese-Czeropski had been working for Cardin since 2021, according to his LinkedIn profile, and spent a summer interning for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2018.

Cardin’s office said in a statement to CNN that Maese-Czeropski was “no longer employed by the U.S. Senate.”