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babylonsister

(171,094 posts) Sat May 18, 2013, 08:38 AM May 2013

FEC Fines Ensign Family

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/05/17/fec_fines_ensign_family.html

FEC Fines Ensign Family

The Federal Election Commission has fined former Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) and his parents $54,000 for improper severance payments to Cindy Hampton, a former campaign aide who had an extramarital affair with the Nevada Republican, Politico reports.

"Doug Hampton, Cindy Hampton's husband, was deputy chief of staff in Ensign's Senate office at that time, as well as being the senator's best friend. The resulting scandal, which exploded into public view in June 2009, led to a lengthy Senate Ethics Committee investigation and criminal probe by the Justice Department, and destroyed Ensign's once-promising political career. Ensign resigned from the Senate in May 2011."

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FEC Fines Ensign Family (Original Post) babylonsister May 2013 OP

Severance payments = hush money maddezmom May 2013 #1

$54,000 is mere pocket change for these people and kestrel91316 May 2013 #2

That's all? malaise May 2013 #3

Here's a more-detailed report from the Las Vegas Sun (link): pinboy3niner May 2013 #6

Thanks king of the DUzys malaise May 2013 #7

You're welcome (but many others are ahead of me for the crown) pinboy3niner May 2013 #8

LOL malaise May 2013 #9

Now Now... Gawd forgave all, ASAP. Hubert Flottz May 2013 #4

No sin too Big or too Small. Hubert Flottz May 2013 #5

maddezmom

(135,060 posts)

1. Severance payments = hush money

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2013, 08:49 AM

May 2013

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)

2. $54,000 is mere pocket change for these people and

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2013, 10:38 AM

May 2013

just another cost of doing business.

malaise

(269,182 posts)

3. That's all?

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2013, 10:42 AM

May 2013

Where is Tangerine LaBamba when I need her. We had so much fun with that Ensign scandal. We knew it would sink his career. They should all be in prison.