Eugene Robinson Sex Tape

Who? Atlantic City councilman.

Real? The tape exists but does not circulate publicly.

This New York Post article summarizes the Eugene Robinson sex tape scandal:

Four Atlantic City men — including a local politician — have been ordered to trial in an alleged plot to blackmail another pol by secretly videotaping him with a hooker in a seedy motel.

Prosecutors claim that councilman John Schultz, along with pals Floyd Tally and David and Ronald Callaway, hired a prostitute to lure councilman Eugene Robinson into the Bayview Motel in Absecon in 2006.

Robinson — who is also a Baptist minister — was videotaped giving the woman money before she performed oral sex on him.

The men threatened to go public with copies of the preacher’s steamy porn session unless Robinson resigned.

Instead of resigning when he learned of the tape, Robinson went to authorities.

Good for the councilman, good riddance to the blackmailers. But this is the lamest excuse by a scandal-plagued politician ever:

He has since insisted that the sex with the prostitute was consensual, and claims that he only gave her money to buy a soda.

$150 for a soda? Just how thirsty was this girl?

For now, the tape has been seen only by investigators and lawyers on the case. Once the case goes to trial, however, the tape could become public.