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(2 of 2) That was enough to get a green light from Guariniello. So Agovino ordered 20 Carabinieri agents, including two linked to a special Health Ministry squad, to carry out a rapid-fire sweep of five residences where Austrians were staying in Pragelato Plan and Cesana San Sicario, the...
When a congressmen face criminal charges, they often argue in court-usually unsuccessfully-that their conduct in Congress should be adjudicated by the ethics committee (which can?t throw anyone in jail) rather than the criminal court system. The underpinning of this is a provision of the Constitution, intended to...
By contrast, current criminal probes of lawmakers are expanding rapidly. Like the Abramoff probe, the investigation into former Republican Representative Randy ?Duke? Cunningham from San Diego is also widening. Last week, defense contractor Mitchell Wade of MZM, Inc., pleaded guilty to supplying more than $1 million of the $2.4 million...
Staff of the ethics committee-which is only beginning to get up and running after a partisan deadlock that's lasted for 13 months-did not return phone calls Friday for comment. Jan Baran, an attorney who has often represented elected officials caught in ethics cases, said Justice may be...
The House and Senate ethics committees-the only panels with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, regardless of who holds the majority-enforce the ethics rules each chamber sets up to govern members? conduct. This runs from governing the use of official expense accounts and payroll to determining when a...