Reps Named in Leaked Ethics Report

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Reps Named in Leaked Ethics Report
October 30, 2009
Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Internal investigations into the conduct of over two dozen House members -- including nearly half the members of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee -- have been exposed in an extraordinary, Internet-era breach of security.

The breach involves the secretive process by which Congress polices lawmaker ethics.

Revelations of the mostly preliminary inquiries by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct - also known as the Ethics committee - and a panel that refers cases to it shook the chamber as lawmakers were immersed in a series of scheduled votes Thursday.

The panel announced that it was investigating two California Democrats - Reps. Maxine Waters and Laura Richardson - even as its embarrassed leaders took pains to explain that several other lawmakers also were identified in the leaked confidential committee memo but may have done nothing wrong.

The committee said it was investigating whether Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock, and whether the couple benefited as a result. Separately, the panel is looking into whether Richardson failed to disclose required information on her financial disclosure forms and received special treatment from a lender.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/reps-named-in-leaked-ethics-report.html?col=1186032310810

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1. I wondered when

I'd see this story on DU.