Ethics Report Faults Ex-Congressman
By ERIC LIPTON
NYT
WASHINGTON — Nathan Deal, a former congressman who is running for Georgia governor, resigned from the House last week in a move that seemed certain to end an ethics investigation that could have caused him political embarrassment.
But on Monday, the Office of Congressional Ethics released its report anyway, concluding that Mr. Deal appeared to have improperly used his office staff to pressure Georgia officials to continue a state vehicle inspection program that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for his family’s auto salvage business.
The 138-page report details how Mr. Deal and his chief of staff intervened with the officials in 2008 and 2009 on behalf of the company, Recovery Services Inc., also known as Gainesville Salvage & Disposal. The accusations first surfaced in a report published last August in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The document also said that Mr. Deal improperly failed to include on his financial disclosure report that he was a corporate officer at the company — not a passive investor — and that as a result the $75,000 he earned in 2008 violated a rule limiting outside income for House members.
(More here.)
NYT
WASHINGTON — Nathan Deal, a former congressman who is running for Georgia governor, resigned from the House last week in a move that seemed certain to end an ethics investigation that could have caused him political embarrassment.
But on Monday, the Office of Congressional Ethics released its report anyway, concluding that Mr. Deal appeared to have improperly used his office staff to pressure Georgia officials to continue a state vehicle inspection program that generated hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for his family’s auto salvage business.
The 138-page report details how Mr. Deal and his chief of staff intervened with the officials in 2008 and 2009 on behalf of the company, Recovery Services Inc., also known as Gainesville Salvage & Disposal. The accusations first surfaced in a report published last August in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The document also said that Mr. Deal improperly failed to include on his financial disclosure report that he was a corporate officer at the company — not a passive investor — and that as a result the $75,000 he earned in 2008 violated a rule limiting outside income for House members.
(More here.)
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