More Messages Link Senator to Job Effort

[TomCADem]

Source: NY Times

WASHINGTON — Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign’s efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.

Mr. Ensign, Republican of Nevada, suggested that a Las Vegas development firm hire the husband, Douglas Hampton, after it had sought the senator’s help on several energy projects in 2008, according to e-mail messages and interviews with company executives.

The messages are the first written records from Mr. Ensign documenting his efforts to find clients for Mr. Hampton, a top aide and close friend, after the senator had an affair with his wife, Cynthia Hampton. They appear to undercut the senator’s assertion that he did not know the work might involve Congressional lobbying, which could violate a federal ban on such activities by staff members for a year after leaving government.

The e-mail messages also hint at what Mr. Ensign’s office now says was an effort by the Las Vegas firm, a small energy investment business called P2SA Equity, to improperly link Mr. Ensign’s possible assistance to a promised donation.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11inquire.html?hp

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So, when is Glenn Beck going to demand that he have John Ensign on his program so that Ensign can tell his side of the story? It is amazing how fast Republican scandals like Ensign and Vitter die down with Fox News running interference, rather than trying to fan the flames. Of course, the fastest ticket to get on Glenn Beck is to be a Democratic who attacks other Democrats.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Nothing to see here folks - just another wrongfully accused RATpubliCON

[calimary]

2. PLENTY to see here! Plus, it's fodder to help drown out the media's Massa obsession.

If the GOP tries to make hay out of Eric Massa, this should be thrown out there AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE. From the "oh YEAH? Well how 'bout that nice big glass house YOU live in..."