Ethics panel recommends investigation of Rep. Mark Meadows
A congressional ethics panel said there is “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), broke House rules by paying his departed chief of staff a three-month severance package in 2015.
The findings of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) were released by the House Ethics Committee on Wednesday. Committee heads said they will continue to review the allegations against Meadows.
Meadows has denied any wrongdoing, arguing through a lawyer that he acted in good faith, even if it turns out he broke the rules.
The allegations against Meadows stem from an unsavory situation in his congressional office. Meadows, a two-term congressman who once led a bid to oust then-Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), appointed his former GOP rival Kenneth West to his chief-of-staff job when he came to Congress in 2013. In late 2014, allegations began surfacing from female staffers in Meadows’s office that West’s behavior was making them uncomfortable. According to the OCE report, Meadows said he would take care of it — and swiftly did, making sure that West was no longer present around the office.
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http://ethics.house.gov/sites/ethics.house.gov/files/OCE%20Report%20and%20Findings_0.pdf
Another cheating teabagger caught thinking the rules don't apply to him.