The House Ethics Committee announced today that it will continue investigating whether Rep. Robert Andrews
(D-N.J.) misused campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, but it
will do so without forming a formal investigative subcommittee.
In April, the committee began reviewing whether Andrews used money from his Congressional campaign and a leadership PAC to pay for a family trip to Scotland, to fly his daughter to Los Angeles because of her interest in the entertainment business and to pay for her high school graduation party. The case started in the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, which voted in March to send the matter to the House Ethics Committee for further review.
The committee's decision to continue reviewing the case informally was accompanied by a 244-page report and exhibits that detail the office's findings. The release was triggered by a mandatory disclosure provision in the ethics review process that gives the committee 90 days in most cases to either empanel an investigative subcommittee or release the office's findings.
"The Committee notes that the mere fact of conducting further review of a referral, and any mandatory disclosure of such further review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgement on behalf of the Committee," Ethics Chairman Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) and ranking member Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) said in a joint statement.
Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/-217222-1.html?pos=hftxt
In April, the committee began reviewing whether Andrews used money from his Congressional campaign and a leadership PAC to pay for a family trip to Scotland, to fly his daughter to Los Angeles because of her interest in the entertainment business and to pay for her high school graduation party. The case started in the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, which voted in March to send the matter to the House Ethics Committee for further review.
The committee's decision to continue reviewing the case informally was accompanied by a 244-page report and exhibits that detail the office's findings. The release was triggered by a mandatory disclosure provision in the ethics review process that gives the committee 90 days in most cases to either empanel an investigative subcommittee or release the office's findings.
"The Committee notes that the mere fact of conducting further review of a referral, and any mandatory disclosure of such further review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgement on behalf of the Committee," Ethics Chairman Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) and ranking member Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) said in a joint statement.
Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/-217222-1.html?pos=hftxt
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