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House ethics panel announces allegations against Luis Gutierrez
Source: Washington Post
House ethics panel announces allegations against Luis Gutierrez
BY ED O'KEEFE
March 20 at 3:35 pm
Updated 4:12 p.m.
The House Ethics Committee is reviewing unspecified allegations against Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), the panel announced Thursday.
The committee said in a statement that the Office of Congressional Ethics, which investigates allegations of wrongdoing against lawmakers on behalf of the committee, referred the findings of an investigation into Gutierrez to the committee in early December. Just because the committee begins reviewing the findings of that investigation doesn't signal that Gutierrez is guilty, the committee added. An update will be given in May.
Gutierrez is a longtime lawmaker from Chicago and a strong supporter of enacting new immigration laws. In a statement Thursday, his spokesman said that the investigation is related to "whether a long-standing contract was allowable under House rules. The contract for services was reviewed and approved by the House of Representatives and submitted for renewal each Congress for 10 years. It was consistently and properly reported. Rep. Gutierrez cancelled the contract last year."
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USA Today reported this week that Gutierrez has spent nearly $30,000 in legal fees since last summer after the newspaper reported that the lawmaker had kept a Chicago lobbyist working in his congressional office for years. The lobbyist, Doug Scofield, is Gutierrez's former chief of staff and was paid several thousand dollars a month as a contractor to work with the lawmaker's staff, according to the newspaper.
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BY ED O'KEEFE
March 20 at 3:35 pm
Updated 4:12 p.m.
The House Ethics Committee is reviewing unspecified allegations against Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), the panel announced Thursday.
The committee said in a statement that the Office of Congressional Ethics, which investigates allegations of wrongdoing against lawmakers on behalf of the committee, referred the findings of an investigation into Gutierrez to the committee in early December. Just because the committee begins reviewing the findings of that investigation doesn't signal that Gutierrez is guilty, the committee added. An update will be given in May.
Gutierrez is a longtime lawmaker from Chicago and a strong supporter of enacting new immigration laws. In a statement Thursday, his spokesman said that the investigation is related to "whether a long-standing contract was allowable under House rules. The contract for services was reviewed and approved by the House of Representatives and submitted for renewal each Congress for 10 years. It was consistently and properly reported. Rep. Gutierrez cancelled the contract last year."
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USA Today reported this week that Gutierrez has spent nearly $30,000 in legal fees since last summer after the newspaper reported that the lawmaker had kept a Chicago lobbyist working in his congressional office for years. The lobbyist, Doug Scofield, is Gutierrez's former chief of staff and was paid several thousand dollars a month as a contractor to work with the lawmaker's staff, according to the newspaper.
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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/20/house-ethics-panel-launches-investigation-of-rep-luis-gutierrez/?tid=hpModule_ba0d4c2a-86a2-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394
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