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POLITICO: A Laura Richardson Ethics Probe: ?A letter of resignation sent by a former staffer to Re?

By Glenn Reynolds

POLITICO: A Laura Richardson Ethics Probe: “A letter of resignation sent by a former staffer to Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Cali.) appears to indicate that ethics investigators are probing the Los Angeles-area Congresswoman — a fact Richardson has denied to local reporters. . . . This is not the first time that Rep. Richardson has faced ethics questions in her short tenure in Congress. The ethics committee investigated her in 2009 on charges revolving around her foreclosed Sacramento home. Richardson was later cleared of any wrongdoing.”

Some background on that foreclosure scandal here. The country’s in the very best of hands.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 11, 2011 (boomark / email).