An ethics watchdog said in 2022 that Mann 'stands to benefit significantly' from the opportunity zone tax break he had signed on to extend. Four years later he is still the manager of one opportunity zone fund and a member of two more — and he voted for the bill that made the break permanent.
A federal judge ruled on August 5 that Veterans Guardian ran an illegal, predatory business against disabled veterans. Bergman's bill would legalize that business in all 50 states — and the company's CEO and COO each maxed out to his campaign twelve weeks before he introduced it.
Cynthia West filed a workplace complaint against Spartz, was offered a settlement with a nondisclosure agreement, and refused it. Spartz's office has given two different reasons for letting her go — and her staff turnover was the worst of her career.
A New York Times investigation found the congressman steered a national anti-terrorism ID card program toward his own district and his own donors — while taking 11 trips, six to Hawaii, from a group in line to profit from a no-bid contract he helped arrange.
Jackson's campaign spent $11,928.27 at an Amarillo dining club that gives him and his wife unlimited access to the dining rooms, gym and a national network of country clubs. The ethics office referred him twice. He refused to be interviewed. So did the club.
Jackson is running to chair the House Armed Services Committee. A Pentagon investigation found he made sexual comments about a female subordinate, drank on presidential trips, and screamed at the staff who worked for him. The Navy demoted him for it.
Six weeks after the Li'l Abner developer gave the Gimenez Victory Committee $150,000, Gimenez asked Congress for $10 million for that developer's project. He got $6 million. He never said a public word about the residents.
When Newcap collapsed, $2.1 million in HUD rent assistance for 134 households — many chronically homeless or fleeing domestic violence — sat frozen. Baldwin wanted it moved immediately. Wied wanted a fraud investigation first.
"I am a second-generation auto dealer," he told the House while offering it. The amendment passed on a voice vote before it was midnight, got him an ethics investigation, and was stripped out of the final law.