Paper: GOP senator likely to be indicted

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http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0405/paper-gop-senator-indicted/
Raw Story


Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign is likely to be indicted for a $96,000 payment he made to the husband of the aide with whom he had an affair, a leading Nevada political reporter says.

John Ralston of the Las Vegas Sun reports that prosecutors looking into the scandal surrounding Ensign's affair with former aide Cynthia Hampton are focusing on the payment made by Ensign's parents to the Hamptons. Critics have charged that Ensign used his parents to pay off the cuckolded husband, Doug Hampton.

But prosecutors believe the money may have been a form of "structuring," an illegal activity where transactions are reclassified to avoid reporting rules. While Ensign's defenders sat the payment to the Hamptons was a "gift," federal prosecutors believe it may have been a severance payment to Ensign's aide, in which case it broke the law surrounding reporting of severance payments.

Ralston reports:

Two former federal prosecutors in the past two weeks have said there is enough evidence to indict Ensign. “Just based on what the senator has said himself and what Mr. (Doug) Hampton has said … under the federal standard of probable cause, there’s enough to indict the senator now,” ex-prosecutor Stan Hunterton, a well-respected local attorney, said March 19 on “Face to Face.” Then, Thursday on the program, Melanie Sloan, the former federal prosecutor who now heads a D.C. watchdog group that has filed several complaints against Ensign, said, “I completely think” Hunterton is right.


Why Sen. Ensign should be worried about possible indictment
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/apr/04/why-sen-ensign-should-be-worried-about-possible-in/

[livetohike]

1. This investigation seems to be dragging

Hopefully, they will indict him soon and he'll get thrown out before the election.

[napi21]

2. Good. I hope they don't indight until maybe late Sept. or

Oct. when it will be too late for any Pub to put on a good campaign to replace him!

[Bitwit1234]

3. If the same thing happens like with delay

he will never go to trial. Jefferson, a Democrat was proven to be doing something illegal. Only took about a little over 6 or 7 months to get him indicted, arrested and tried. With delay it has been almost that many years and the crooked S.O.B is still running around and panning Democrats. I bet if ensign is ever even indicted he will never come to trial.

[solara]

4. He has a good chance to appear on "Dance with the Stars" though.

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[WillyT]

5. GOOD !!! - K & R !!!

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