Category: House

House Ethics to Look at Trips

Roll Call reports that House Ethics will “investigate officially-connected travel in 2007 and 2008 that was sponsored, funded or organized by an organization known as Carib News or Carib News Foundation.”  As of the time of this writing, the statement does not appear on the committee’s website.

Former Rep. Jefferson on Trial

The Post has the play-by-play on the trial of Rep. William Jefferson. [Defense Attorney Robert] Trout told the jury that the money in the freezer had received so much publicity that he contemplated opening his statement with “a joke about the cold cash.” Instead, he offered this explanation: “He was looking to hide the cash […]