Report: Justice Department Subpoenas Nevada Businesses in Connection With Ensign Inquiry

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Source: Roll Call

Justice Department investigators have issued subpoenas to Nevada businesses, seeking information related to Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and his former aide Doug Hampton, CBS affiliate KLAS-TV reported Wednesday.

Both the Senate Ethics Committee and the FBI are investigating Ensign’s involvement in procuring lobbying work for Hampton after Ensign ended an affair with Hampton’s wife, Cynthia Hampton. A $96,000 payment that Ensign’s parents made to the Hamptons may also be under review.

The KLAS-TV Web site reports that at least six Las Vegas-area businesses received subpoenas March 8, served by an FBI agent and a prosecutor from DOJ’s Public Integrity Section.

According to a redacted copy of one subpoena, the DOJ is also seeking any documents — including calendars, e-mails, photographs, notes, memoranda and other items — that mention Ensign or the Hamptons, as well as former Ensign Chief of Staff John Lopez and any contacts with Ensign’s staff.

Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/44344-1.html

[Joanne98]

1. YAY

[PRETZEL]

2. I wonder if his step dad's casino

is one of them.

Can't remember off the top of my head which one it is.

[aquart]

3. The United States Justice Department? Is investigating something?

Something a Republican did?

I would like to believe you. But I'm just going to assume Ensign will be found to have done nothing wrong.

[No Elephants]

4. If my son ever becomes a Senator and has an affair, I know I will want to gift his mistress, her

husband and their children on a tax-free basis, with no strings attached, just simple gifts from my heart.

Wouldn't any parent?