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...serious mistakes, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese neglected to report a $15,000 loan to his wife from a friend who later won appointment to a Government post. Meese is still under investigation by a special prosecutor, and his nomination las Attorney General is on hold. Last June, Congressman George Hansen, an Idaho Republican, was sentenced to five to 15 months in federal prison for not disclosing $334,000 he and his wife received. His violation of the Ethics in Government Act was more willful and serious, of course, than the infraction Ferraro may have committed: he might be compared...
Said Republican Congressman George Hansen of Idaho last week: "It is no fun trying to be responsible in the irresponsible atmosphere of the nation's capital." No fun, indeed. Two weeks ago, Hansen, 53, was sentenced by a federal judge to serve five to 15 months in prison and pay a $40,000 fine for filing false financial-disclosure statements to Congress. Last week the House Ethics Committee delivered a different rap, this one to Hansen's knuckles as it recommended that he suffer the formal reprimand of the full House for his crimes. During that hearing...
...committee had other options, including recommendation of a motion of censure, a heavy fine or even expulsion from the House. Hansen had failed to report several large-scale financial transactions totaling some $334,000 over four years, including a concealed loan of $61,000 to his wife Connie from Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt in 1978. Hansen, who voluntarily refrained from voting in the House after his conviction, was the first convicted felon permitted to continue serving in that chamber since Michigan Democrat Charles Diggs was convicted in 1978 for diverting employees' salaries...
SENTENCED. George Hansen, 53, colorful, right-wing Republican Congressman from Idaho; to five to 15 months in prison and a $40,000 fine, for filing false financial-disclosure statements to Congress that, among other things, omitted his monetary ties to Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt; in Washington...
Idaho Republican Congressman George Hansen was found guilty by a Washington jury last week of "willfully" failing to include four financial transactions on disclosure forms required of federal officials and legislators. Most of them involved loans to himself or his wife, including $61,503 from Texas Oilman and Silver Speculator Nelson Bunker Hunt. While awaiting sentencing and his appeal of the verdict, he will be investigated by the House Ethics Committee, which could recommend that he be censured or expelled from the House. Meese has admitted that he failed to include a loan to his wife and a related stock...