Michigan [The Smoking Gun]- The husband of a United States senator recently admitted to cops that he paid a 20-year-old hooker $150 to perform oral sex on him at a Michigan hotel.

Thomas Athans, the 46-year-old spouse of Senator Debbie Stabenow, was confronted by police on February 26 after departing the Residence Inn in Troy (investigators had been surveilling the hotel after receiving reports that hookers were operating from Room 1822).

According to a Troy Police Department report, Athans told detectives that he set up the sexual encounter after responding to a Craigslist ad. While Athans was not charged in connection with the illicit hotel tryst, Alycia Martin, 20, [pictured left] was hit with a prostitution count.

Martin told cops that she was a stripper who had only been “doing this for one week.” Cops seized condoms, K-Y jelly, and a “pink marital aid” from Martin’s hotel room. Athans, who married Stabenow, a second-term Democrat from Michigan, in 2003, is founder of TalkUSA Radio, a liberal radio network.

As first reported by the Detroit Free Press, johns were also drawn to the Residence Inn by an advertisement placed on backpage.com, an online classifieds site. That ad, which you’ll find here, noted that a “sweet sexy provider” offered “100% satisfaction” for $225 per hour.