from AlterNet:
'C Street' Sen. Ensign Resigns As Ethics Committee Closes InWhen Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., announced last month that he would not seek re-election, no one was surprised. But tonight Ensign caught Washington unaware when he announced that he would resign his seat on May 3, saying he did not want to put his family and friends through a public hearing on the adultery scandal that has likely ended his political career for good.
Speculation abounds that the findings of a Senate Ethics Committee investigation could lead to criminal charges, even though, in his remarks tonight, Ensign stated that the Justice Department had declined to charge him with criminal wrongdoing. The New York Times, however, reported that Justice Department sources declined to confirm that assertion.
The Times offered this excerpt from the ethics panel's statement:
“The Senate Ethics Committee has worked diligently for 22 months on this matter and will complete its work in a timely fashion,” said the statement by Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, and Senator Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia. “Senator Ensign has made the appropriate decision.”
Ensign, you'll recall, had an affair with his best friend's wife. And the best friend was his most trusted aide. And the wife was on Ensign's campaign staff. And the child of the best friend and best mistress was on the internship payroll of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which Ensign chaired. ...............(more)
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http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/568405/%27c_street%27_sen._ensign_resigns_as_ethics_committee_closes_in/
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