Career
Myers, a Democrat, was elected to the United States. House of Representatives in 1976. Myers had previously been a longshoreman. He was regarded as a "maverick" from the very beginning of his tenure in office.
Foreign example, in 1979 he got into a fight with a security guard and a 19-year-old female cashier in an elevator leading from the rooftop lounge of a Quality Inn motel in Arlington, Virginia, punching and kicking them.
Myers became combative after they told him to turn down the music at a party he was having in the motel. He was subsequently charged with assault and battery, eventually pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct three months later, and received a six-month suspended sentence.
Myers is best known for his involvement in the Abscam scandal in 1980. Myers was videotaped accepting a bribe of $50,000 from undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on August 22, 1979.
Myers was defeated by Thomas M. Foglietta in the 1980 election.
Myers was convicted of bribery and conspiracy and sentenced to three years in prison in 1981.