President Obama’s “ethics czar,” is going to Europe as an ambassador — and it’s causing anxiety among government watchdog groups who admire the work accomplished under his watch. Norman Eisen, who founded a government oversight group called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington before joining the administration, instituted More…
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has been receiving a lot of media attention for his gadfly role as ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Since the Obama administration took office, he’s aggressively pursued investigations against favorite GOP targets like ACORN and alleged wrongdoing by the administration More…
That’s the question being asked by some government watchdogs in the wake of Rep. Charlie Rangel’s admonishment by the House Ethics Committee yesterday.
The New York Democrat, the panel concluded, had violated congressional lobbying rules when he was flown to Caribbean business conferences in recent years at More…
In January of 2008, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee against Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.). CREW wondered if a $2 million earmark Landrieu had showered on a children’s literacy company wasn’t inspired by a $30,000 fundraiser the More…
The ethics watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is hounding the governor even as the media spotlight (temporarily?) flits elsewhere. It’s filed a compliant with South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and with the State Ethics Commission. Politically and legally, it’s probably not as big a worry More…
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