Posted on 03/09/2024 2:08:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
While leading Democrats’ smears against constitutionalist Supreme Court justices, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse was engaging in actual corruption, says the complaint.
Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse allegedly spent the last 17 years in the Senate pushing legislation that directly benefits the environmentalist groups that pay his wife.
A 21-page ethics complaint, filed by Judicial Watch last month, alleges Whitehouse abused his congressional position to enrich himself and his wife, Sandra Thorton Whitehouse, president of the consulting firm Ocean Wonks. She also raked in millions consulting for Ocean Conservancy and sat on the advisory board at AltaSea from 2015 to 2018, says the complaint.
Whitehouse is Democrats’ lead man in their effort to destroy the credibility of the Supreme Court with sham ethics grievances and dark money allegations. He only became interested in scrutinizing the court’s “ethics” code when it became politically and personally profitable to target the conservative-controlled court.
Not only has Whitehouse refused to probe Democrat-nominated justices’ decades-long ethics violations, he’s also spent the last 15 years skirting criticism for his conflicts of interest and dark money deals. The Senate Ethics Code prohibits members from using the “prestige or influence of a position in the Senate for personal gain.”
Over his nearly two decades in office, however, Whitehouse allegedly orchestrated and sponsored several pieces of legislation that “contains authorization for, and appropriation of, numerous federal environmental programs that fund activities undertaken by his wife’s clients, which constitute a ‘limited class’ of beneficiaries for such federal funds.”
Just two years after taking office, Whitehouse penned a letter for the U.S. Department of Transportation to approve a $22 million grant for a company that planned to lease offshore land...
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Any politician who enters public service poor and leaves rich should be investigated.
We know it wouldn’t happen but it’s a nice fantasy.
This DOJ turns a blind eye to political corruption by democrats... But if it were a Republican... Oh boy!
>> Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse
Headline writers be like: “Cool, Whitehouse is in the news again”.
Isn’t he the one who belongs to a RACIST club, refuses to leave or ask the club to change...
AND HE GETS NO BLOWBACK...WHAT AN ACE OF A GUY.
DEMONRATS! No matter which party they inhabit, they are all the same.
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