Republican senator Ron Johnson 'personally benefited from tax change he sought'
Source: The Guardian
Republican senator 'personally benefited from tax change he sought'
Ron Johnson, who has led attacks on Joe Biden’s son Hunter, began sale of company months after insisting on change of tax law
Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
@skirchy Email
Wed 21 Oct 2020 17.45 BST
Ron Johnson, the senator from Wisconsin who has led the Republican campaign in the Senate of making unfounded claims about Joe Biden’s son Hunter, is facing a host of questions about his own ethics, including whether he personally benefited from a change in tax law that he sought in 2017.
A letter sent by Johnson to the Senate ethics committee in May has revealed the senator began the process of selling a company he partly owned in February 2018, just months after he insisted the Trump administration change a portion of the tax law in a way that ultimately benefited the sale.
The issue has become a focus of the Congressional Integrity Project, a Democratic watchdog group that is seeking to expose allegations of corruption within the Republican ranks.
At the center of claims made by the watchdog group are allegations that Johnson may have sought out a change in the Trump administration’s 2017 tax bill to enrich himself personally.
Questions began swirling around Johnson’s sale of stock in Pacur in March, when it was first disclosed. ...
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