House Ethics Board finds “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Bill Owens (D-NY21 ) illegally accepted foreign gifts

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House Ethics Board finds “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Bill Owens (D-NY21 ) illegally accepted foreign gifts

 

Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 6:04pm

The Board of the Office of Congressional Ethics just released findings (with extensive evidentiary supporting documents) that there is “substantial reason to believe” Rep. Bill Owens (D-NY21) violated federal law and House Rules in connection with a trip to Taiwan (emphasis added):

 

NATURE OF THE ALLEGED VIOLATIONS: Representative Bill Owens may have accepted payment of travel expenses for an officially connected trip to Taiwan from an impermissible source, resulting in an impermissible gift, in violation of federal law and House Rules. Representative Owens may have accepted payment of travel expenses for an officially connected trip to Taiwan, when that trip was in some part planned, organized, requested, or arranged by agents of a foreign principal, in violation of House Rules.

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