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Title: Blockbuster Report on GOP Senator John Ensign Affair May End His Career
Source:
The AtlanticWire
URL Source: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opin ... Affair-May-End-His-Career-1207
Published: Oct 2, 2009
Author: Max Fisher
Post Date: 2009-10-02 15:52:57 by Brian S
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Comments: 1
The scandal over Senator John Ensign's affair with a staffer is heating up in a big way. A massive New York Times investigation reports, "in trying to clean up the mess from the illicit relationship and distance himself from the Hamptons, he entangled political supporters, staff members and Senate colleagues, some of whom say they now feel he betrayed them." Ensign used his office extensively to benefit Doug Hampton, Ensign's staffer and the husband of his mistress, in an apparent desire to buy Hampton's silence and keep the affair secret. In addition to the story's many salacious details, it implies possible violations of lobbying laws by both Ensign and Hampton. the scandal, teasing out unexplained details and discussing it in-depth with Times reporter Eric Lipton. "In terms of potential criminal liability and ethics liability here though, it's not so much a question of what Senator Ensign did at Doug Hampton's request, isn't it simply a matter that Doug Hampton was lobbying John Ensign at a time when he really was not allowed to be doing so?" she asked Lipton. "Also still unexplored is John Ensign's role in getting the son of his mistress a job at the Republican Party Senate Campaign Committee." Maddow dismissed the Ensign office's explanation that a $96,000 check to the Hampton family was just a gift. "It doesn't seem credible. It seems like an impossible case." pauses to celebrate the depth of investigative work in the report. "The Times's exceptionally well-reported investigation of the John Ensign sex scandal--which, the piece makes clear, evolved into an influence-peddling, quasi-blackmail scandal--drops more shoes than Riverdance," he joked. "A single paragraph doesn't begin to do it justice."
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Not much good to be found in letting the trouser-worm roam.
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