Ethics hearing for S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley to begin Thursday

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/06/25/153632/ethics-hearing-for-sc-gov-nikki.html

Ethics hearing for S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley to begin Thursday
Posted on Monday, June 25, 2012

Andrew Shain | The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Andrew Shain The State

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Gov. Nikki Haley has made a lot of history as South Carolina’s governor, and she’s about to make more. But it’s not the kind of history that the Lexington Republican, the state’s first woman and first nonwhite governor, could have wanted.

The S.C. House Ethics Committee will start a hearing Thursday to determine if Haley illegally lobbied for her employers while she was a lawmaker. It is the first time a governor has been investigated by the committee.
The Ethics Committee has subpoenaed 11 corporate executives, lobbyists and former government officials for the hearing, as well as documents.

Haley, who has denied any wrongdoing, was not subpoenaed, though her office has left open the possibility that the first-term governor, elected in 2010, might testify. She was interviewed by attorneys representing the committee the day before the subpoenas were issued, but Haley declined to say what they discussed.