Ethics Questions Raised for Congressmen Who Stayed at C Street House
By ERIC LIPTON
NYT
3:39 p.m. | Updated WASHINGTON — First it was the owner of the red brick townhouse on 133 C Street SE that drew a group’s ire. Now it’s the Congressmen who actually stayed there.
A group of Ohio ministers and an ethics watchdog group here have separately asked federal investigators to examine whether four House members and four Senators received what amounts to illegal gifts for paying $950 a month, including housekeeping, to stay at the C Street house. But the tenants deny that they are getting breaks on the rent.
The town house, which is affiliated with the secretive religious group known as the Fellowship, include both Democrats and Republicans. But in the last year the residence became best known as the onetime home of Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, who lived there while he was involved in an affair with the wife of one of his senior aides.
(More here.)
NYT
3:39 p.m. | Updated WASHINGTON — First it was the owner of the red brick townhouse on 133 C Street SE that drew a group’s ire. Now it’s the Congressmen who actually stayed there.
A group of Ohio ministers and an ethics watchdog group here have separately asked federal investigators to examine whether four House members and four Senators received what amounts to illegal gifts for paying $950 a month, including housekeeping, to stay at the C Street house. But the tenants deny that they are getting breaks on the rent.
The town house, which is affiliated with the secretive religious group known as the Fellowship, include both Democrats and Republicans. But in the last year the residence became best known as the onetime home of Senator John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, who lived there while he was involved in an affair with the wife of one of his senior aides.
(More here.)
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