I was interviewed in a report that aired last night by Scott Bronstein, Joe Johns, and Rahel Solomon of CNN’s Special Investigations Unit. The text of this very well done story appears below. One point not made in the report is that without the Office of Congressional Ethics, our exposé of Rep. Charles Rangel’s acceptance of corporate-funded Caribbean junkets may have been ignored.
In November 2008, NLPC President Peter Flaherty tagged along on a Rangel trip to sunny St. Maarten. He snapped photos and made audio recordings evidencing that big corporations like Citigroup, in violation of House Rules, underwrote the festivities. Based on media coverage we generated, OCE took up the case. It produced a detailed report based on Flaherty’s materials, and referred it to the Ethics Committee for action. The Ethics Committee “admonished” Rangel who was soon after forced to resign his Ways and Means Chairmanship.
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