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House Ethics Panel to Fully Probe Progressive US Rep. Richardson
The House Ethics Committee has voted to start a full-blown probe into Rep. Laura Richardson (P-CA), and whether she made congressional aides do work on her campaign. Various staffers have told ethics investigators that Richardson pressured them to work on her campaign on government time and use government resources. Congressional rules ban aides from working for a campaign on government time and using congressional resources to do so. Richardson accused the committee of “unjustly” targeting its investigation toward certain members for political purposes while ignoring others. Earlier this year, the watchdog group Committee for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) named Richardson as one of the most corrupt members of Congress.
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