Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) better watch out. It is not just Republicans who are now complaining about his conflict of interest in controlling the budgets of the Justice Department and the FBI while under investigation by those entities.
From a blogger today known as texasrabble on the left-wing Daily Kos website:
Amazingly -- despite credible allegations of numerous violations of federal law -- Mollohan is still the Chairman of the House Appropriation Committee's Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. That subcommittee, according to Cong. Mollohan's own website, "funds the departments of Justice and Commerce."
So let's get this straight: The highest-level legislator responsible for funding the Justice Department is himself the subject of a very serious Justice Department investigation. Was there ever a bigger conflict of interest?
Accusations of corruption directed against the late Congressman John Murtha (D-PA) look like they were true. Recently released files seem to confirm that the Federal Bureau of Investigation suspected that Murtha schemed to route federal dollars to bogus companies and other operations that would benefit his friends and former employees and ultimately his own campaigns.
