Sheldon Whitehouse Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Legislation That Allegedly Benefited His Wife’s Environmental Group
“Senator Whitehouse seems to have stepped over the line of standard environmental legislative advocacy and used his Senate office to advance his and his wife’s personal and financial interests”
This is ironic, considering Whitehouse is fond of accusing others of taking dark money.
The New York Post reports:
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse backed laws to benefit wife’s company and their ‘financial interests’: ethics complaint
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a crusader for new ethics guidelines at the Supreme Court, was himself hit with an ethics complaint last month after backing two dozen pieces of legislation that have benefited his wife’s environmental consulting company.
The conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch asked the Senate Ethics Committee to “immediately investigate” Whitehouse (D-RI), alleging there was “strong evidence” he “violated ethics conflicts of interest rules,” according to a copy of the Feb. 21 complaint exclusively obtained by The Post.
“Senator Whitehouse seems to have stepped over the line of standard environmental legislative advocacy and used his Senate office to advance his and his wife’s personal and financial interests,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.
The complaint further urged Ethics panel chairman Chris Coons (D-Del.) and ranking member James Lankford (R-Okla.) to subpoena relevant parties should an investigation be launched.
Whitehouse, 68, has been dogged by ethics questions since his first years in the Senate, when he secured a $22 million federal grant for an offshore wind company, Deepwater Wind, that had hired his wife as a “permitting consultant,” the complaint states, citing contemporaneous reports from local Rhode Island outlets.
The senator denied the hire ever happened, but the news articles have never been retracted. Whitehouse has also dismissed conflict of interest concerns in the past, noting that he cannot determine which companies receive federal funds.
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Oh man, Karma finally caught up to this bastard! I hope they crucify him.
Congress is a huge pool party where all the bathers accuse each other of being wet.
Whitehouse always cries crocadile tears about conservative so called :”dark money”
Weldon Shi…..well you know the rest…..is still a snobby, racist, elitist boor who is one of those “do as I say and not as I do” coastal leftists who will never admit that he has no ethics at all. He believes in “rights”: going to the “right” schools, belonging to the “right” clubs (like the snooty whites-only swim club), and only hobnobbing with the “right” people (ala Pauline Kael).
I long for the day when an American, called to testify in front of Congress, has the backbone to call the that leftist Mr. Colon Hole..