Mollohan, D-WV to Step Down From Ethics Post

Roll Call ^ | April 21, 2006 | John Bresnahan

[Ooh-Ah]

Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.), under fire from Republicans and watchdog groups over his personal financial dealings, will step aside, at least temporarily, as ranking member of the House ethics committee, according to Democratic insiders.

[Arrowhead1952]

That would be Ronnie "The Weasel" Earle, from Travis Co. AUSTIN, TX...the blue anus of Texas.

There are RED areas in Travis county.

[Mo1]

PING!

[Howlin]

Just from the panel? Hmmm....

[onyx]

Ah, those ethical democrats./sarc

[hipaatwo]

another WOO HOO! 2 in one day :-)

[ohioWfan]

The triumverate would be if Cynthia McKinney ends up in the slammer today. :)

[Mo1]

another WOO HOO! 2 in one day :-)

Let's hope for 3

And Rockefeller being next

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Republicans are a culture of corruption. Oh. Wait, you mean this guy is a Democrat? Ooooops.

[mewzilla]

Paging Nancy Pelosi...Paging Nancy Pelosi...Clean up in the Ethics Isle...

[tcrlaf]

It doesn't work that way in DEM-Land...

We JAIL our crooks, Dems Promote thiers......

[BigSkyFreeper]

Stepping aside temporarily until the whole thing blows over or whenever everyone forgets about it. Whichever comes first.

[Txsleuth]

Yes..but maybe they are waiting until Congress is back in session???

[BigSkyFreeper]

I'll cheer the day some Republican has the stones to step forward and rip some of these Democrats a new one and calling a spade a spade, even if it happens to be McCain, the steward of "cleaning up corruption". /sarc

[STARWISE]

LOL .. and they were just showing him being interviewed this morning saying he had no plans to step down. Friday makes for strange news .. ;)

[BigSkyFreeper]

True. If he had any reputation to shore up (he doesn't have any to begin with) he'd step down. But, like all Democrats, this schmuck gets a pass.

[NRA2BFree]

But......but......I saw him on TV last night and he said he was innocent, and he said he wouldn't step down because he didn't do anything wrong?!? Does this mean that the RATS are hypocrites? Puleeeeze say it isn't so. LOL

I wonder if Nancy Pelosi is laying low. Someone's gonna nail her about "corruption" in the GOP, when the RATS are just as corrupt, AND they are hypocrites too!

[STARWISE]

Can you imagine the frozen, Botox-locked face and projectile chagrin of Pelosi when she was forced to do this???

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WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, will leave the panel — at least temporarily — while he defends his own financial conduct, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday.

Mollohan's decision comes in an election year when his party is accusing majority Republicans of allowing a "culture of corruption" in Congress."

[AuH2ORepublican]

More trouble for WV Democrat Mollohan.

[BigSkyFreeper]

From the Washington Post Politics Blog - April 13, 2006 (emphasis mine)

The National Legal & Policy Center, a conservative-minded watchdog group, filed a 500-page document in late February with the U.S. Attorney's office in the District of Columbia alleging that Mollohan severely underreported his personal finances in past disclosure statements. Ken Boehm, the president of the NLPC, said his group began investigating the personal financial disclosures of all the members of the House Appropriations Committee last May and Mollohan "stuck out like a sore thumb."

At the center of the NLPC complaint is an exponential increase in Mollohan's net worth between 2000 and 2004 that was due in large part to a series of real estate investments. In 2000, Mollohan's personal financial disclosure statement showed him with $565,000 in household assets and $465,000 in debt; four years later his household assets were estimated at between $6.3 million and $24.9 million with debts of between $3.7 million and $16.5 million. (Mollohan has said his worth is much closer to the lower end of those estimates.)

During that same period, Mollohan secured more than $150 million in earmarked appropriations for five nonprofit groups that he helped establish and which are based in his congressional district. One of the groups is headed by a woman with whom Mollohan has invested in real estate in North Carolina. ...

...excerpt read more here

[STARWISE]

He'll probably be getting a call from Robert Rubin to come on board his company for his investing prowess... LOL./sarc. It doesn't take savvy to make millions illegally.