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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 ...
What Is the Mysterious New Evidence That Halted the Maxine Waters Investigation?
By David Knowles - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- For now, it's a secret. Fresh off its recommendation of censure for Rep. Charles Rangel, the House ethics committee abruptly postponed a hearing for another Democratic member, California Rep. Maxine Waters. In a statement released today, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct announced the following: The Committee voted to recommit the matter regarding Representative Maxine Waters to the investigative subcommittee due to materials discovered that may have an effect on the investigative subcommittee's transmittal to the Committee. As a result, the adjudicatory ...
Ethics Committee Recommends Censure for Charlie Rangel
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyTwo days after Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) was found guilty of 11 ethics violations by a House ethics subcommittee, the full ethics committee voted nine to one to recommend that the House of Representatives censure Rangel for his "lack of attention and carelessness" and for bringing "discredit to the House and serving to undermine public trust" of the institution. They also recommended Rangel pay restitution for unpaid taxes related to a home in the Dominican Republic. In an extraordinary move before the sentence came down, Rangel released a statement apologizing for his conduct. "This has ...
Charlie Rangel Found Guilty on 11 Counts of Ethics Violations
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyA House ethics subcommittee has found Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) guilty on 11 counts of violating House rules "by clear and convincing evidence," Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the chair of the House ethics committee, announced Tuesday. Rangel was found guilty of breaking House rules related to reporting rental income from his villa in the Dominican Republic, of using a rent-controlled apartment in New York for campaign activities, and rules against using congressional stationery to raise funds for a center at New York's City University to be built in his name. After receiving news of the ...
Charlie Rangel Ethics Trial: House Panel Weighs Congressman's Fate
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyAn eight-member House panel is deliberating the fate of Rep. Charles Rangel after he walked out of his ethics trial Monday when the panel refused his request to delay the proceeding. Rangel, who faces 13 counts of violating House rules, appeared in the morning without a legal team, saying he could not afford representation and asking to postpone the trial until he could. Despite Rangel's absence, the committee's staff attorneys continued with their case against him, making an early motion for a summary judgment against the long-serving Democrat, meaning that no further witnesses or evidence ...
John Boehner: Rangel, Waters Should Face Ethics Trials Before Election
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyHouse Republican leader John Boehner joined the five GOP members of the House Ethics Committee Wednesday in urging that the ethics trials of two senior Democrats be held before the November election. He said Reps. Charlie Rangel (N.Y.) and Maxine Waters (Calif.) "deserve a chance to clear their names." Both Rangel and Waters have been formally charged by the committee for multiple violations of House rules, but have not had trials scheduled to respond to those charges. "If I recall, both Mr. Rangel and Mrs. Waters asked the Ethics Committee for a speedy trial so that they could clear their ...
'Watchdog' Group Recommends Investigation of Sen. David Vitter
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA group that bills itself as a government watchdog -- but which tends to zero in on Republican targets -- has asked Congress to investigate whether Sen. David Vitter (R.-La.) violated ethics regulations when he allowed taxpayer funds to be used to pay for an aide to travel from Washington to Louisiana for court appearances. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint Tuesday with the Senate Ethics Committee, also alleging that Vitter lied when he claimed that aide Brent Furer did not have responsibility for women's policy issues within his office. Furer ...
Waters' Defense: Minority Banks Went Unnoticed
By David Knowles - AOL News(Aug. 13) -- Maxine Waters is firing back. Currently under investigation by the House ethics committee for her role in helping Boston-based OneUnited Bank -- where her husband, Sidney Williams, owned considerable stock -- secure $12 million in TARP funds from the Treasury Department during the economic crisis of 2008, Waters scoffed at the notion that she had broken any laws or House rules. At the heart of Waters' defense is her assertion that the meeting that she and her chief of staff, her grandson Mikael Moore, helped arrange with Treasury officials was not just on behalf of OneUnited, ...
Charlie Rangel to House: 'I Am Not Going Away'
By not in system - AOL NewsRep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) had a message for his fellow Democrats in the House who have not-so-quietly wished that he and his high-profile ethics charges would disappear before the November midterm elections. ...
Charlie Rangel to House: 'I Am Not Going Away'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) had a message for his fellow Democrats in the House who have not-so-quietly wished that he and his high-profile ethics charges would disappear before the November midterm elections. "I don't want anyone to feel embarrassed or awkward. Heck, if I was you, I might want me to go away, too," he said. "I am not going away." In an extraordinary speech on the House floor, Rangel held forth for more than half and hour to defend himself. He said there is "not one scintilla of evidence" to prove him guilty of the violations he is accused of and demanded that the ethics ...
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