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.
A watchdog asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate. Sworn testimony and text messages from a Texas bankruptcy case show the congressman was briefed by the donor beforehand — over lunch at the donor's ranch, and through his own congressional staff.
A fund collected nearly $149,000 from donors who thought they were helping East Palestine. Its founder paid a $25,000 penalty and took a lifetime ban from Ohio charities. A year and a half later, Rulli made him his communications director.
NOTUS found 22 trades Rulli failed to disclose on time — Palantir, Pfizer, Nvidia, Meta and more, worth up to $330,000. He sits on the committee with jurisdiction over drug safety and telecom. His office wouldn't say if he paid the fine.
The freshman Ohio Republican is the 43rd biggest trader by volume in the House and Senate — the top 8% — and some of the companies he buys and sells have business before his own committee. His office wouldn't answer questions about it.
Ciscomani's annual filing revealed a Treasury bond he bought in August 2025 and never reported on time. Eight days later he voted for a bill he cosponsored to clean up congressional trading — and told Arizona it was about accountability.
His company's munitions were fired at protesters in Hong Kong and at Black Lives Matter demonstrators in 2020. He called it work he was 'proud' of, took more than $1 million in forgiven pandemic loans, and now sits on the committee that oversees arms exports.