A legal complaint has been filed with the Ohio Elections Commission against Hamilton County Clerk of Court and Democratic congressional candidate Aftab Pureval alleging he didn’t document some campaign spending and spent funds from another campaign account on his congressional race.
Former Arizona secretary of state Ken Bennett, who is mounting a challenge to incumbent governor Doug Ducey in the Republican gubernatorial primary this year, has attempted to paint himself as the sole fiscal conservative in the race, despite a record to the contrary.
A watchdog group on Thursday filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee, requesting that it open an investigation into Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.) for failing to disclose income earned from the private plane owned by her husband.
The chairman and ranking member of the House Ethics Committee are urging lawmakers to pass legislation that would hold members of Congress financially accountable in certain cases of workplace misconduct.
The Senate Ethics Committee “severely admonished” Sen. Robert Menendez (D., N.J.) on Thursday and ordered him to repay unreported gifts.
The ethics head for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Caren Z. Turner, was forced to resign after a video emerged of her berating police officers during Easter weekend.
The entrance of Mike Espy, former secretary of agriculture under President Bill Clinton, into the special election to serve the remainder of resigning Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R.) term in Mississippi has reignited Democrats’ hopes of snatching another Senate seat in the deep South.
Rep. Elizabeth Esty (D., Conn.) is calling for the House Ethics Committee to review her response to allegations a former top staffer physically abused and sexually harassed another senior advisor.
Rep. Bobby Rush (D., Ill.) has been ordered to pay $13,000 to the U.S. Treasury from his own pocket for improperly receiving free office space for nearly 27 years, according to the House Committee on Ethics.
