Ensign sex scandal widens as new emails emerge
OPS_admin | Mar 11, 2010 | Comments 0
The scandal that erupted last year when it was revealed that Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) had not only had an affair with the wife of one of his top aides but may have violated Senate ethics rules in an attempt to hush the matter up expanded this week with the release of emails further documenting Ensign’s efforts on behalf of his former aide.
The New York Times reported in October that when Douglas Hampton confronted Ensign about the affair, Ensign arranged for him to take a job as a lobbyist with a Nevada consulting firm, an apparent violation of Senate restrictions on lobbying by former aides. Ensign then steered some of his own corporate donors to Hampton as clients on whose behalf Hampton lobbied his former boss.
The Times has now obtained emails which appear to show Ensign also trying to arrange for Hampton to be hired by a small Las Vegas energy investment firm which was seeking Ensign’s help on several projects. The firm’s co-owner, Greg Paulk, had previously donated to Ensign’s campaign.
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The oligarchs openly talking about a coup d'état in America?
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