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DOJ Drops Ensign Investigation; Republican Still Faces Ethics Panel Probe
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAnother big break for Sen. John Ensign, after federal prosecutors announced Wednesday the Nevada Republican would not face charges related to payments he made following his extramarital affair with a former campaign staffer. "The Department of Justice has informed us that Senator Ensign is no longer a target of its investigation and that it has no plans to bring any charges against him on this matter," Ensign's lawyers said in statement first obtained by The Las Vegas Sun. Ensign is still the subject of a probe by the Senate ethics committee over his affair with Cynthia Hampton, his former ...
Sen. John Ensign: I Broke No Law, and I Won't Resign
By Sally Denton - Politics DailyNevada Republican Sen. John Ensign, under increasing attack following his affair with a staffer, told CNN Tuesday he did not break Senate ethics rules by helping to secure a lobbying job for the woman's husband. "I said in the past, I recommended him for jobs just like I've recommended a lot of people," Ensign told CNN. "But we absolutely did nothing except for comply exactly with what the ethics laws and the ethics rules of the Senate state. We were very careful in everything that we did." Meanwhile, two Nevada talk show hosts have called for Ensign's resignation in the wake of the expanding ...
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