Tom Coburn Gets Big Penalty From Fellow Senators
WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Republican Sen. Tom Coburn on Friday over his contact with a top aide to former Sen. John En...
WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee admonished Republican Sen. Tom Coburn on Friday over his contact with a top aide to former Sen. John En...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.12.2011
Sweet fancy Moses, y'all. In my lifetime, I have read some sordid accounts of the many scandalous ways our elected officials have broken society's "se...
HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 07.12.2011
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Coburn played a more active role than previously known in the negotiations between ex-Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) and his former ...
AP/The Huffington Post | CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 06.23.2011
LAS VEGAS -- The resignation this week by U.S. Sen. John Ensign raised questions about what an ongoing Senate ethics probe has uncovered, while also m...
AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 06.21.2011
LAS VEGAS -- A timeline of major events leading to the announcement Thursday by Republican U.S. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada that he will resign May 3: ...
AP | CRISTINA SILVA | Posted 05.25.2011
LAS VEGAS — The Nevada man whose wife had a monthslong affair with Sen. John Ensign said in a rare statement Wednesday that the Republican shoul...
AP | SHARON THEIMER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint against Sen. John Ensign over a $96,000 payment his parents made to his forme...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
LAS VEGAS — Attorneys for the Senate Ethics Committee were in Las Vegas questioning executives from Nevada companies and others about U.S. Sen. ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AP / HUFFINGTON POST)-- Sen. John Ensign of Nevada has set up a defense fund to help pay some of the legal expenses stemming from two gove...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — E-mails turned over to the FBI and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Sen. John Ensign's efforts to find lobbyi...
Melanie Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011
The fact that the FBI is investigating Sen. Ensign's conduct sends an important message: no one -- not even a powerful U.S. senator -- is above the law.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Doug Hampton, whose wife had an affair with John Ensign, said in an interview that the Nevada senator should "resign immediately," claiming that power...
George's Bottom Line | Posted 05.25.2011
Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., told me flatly that he did not offer to broker a million-dollar deal between his Senate colleague, John Ensign, R-Nev., and ...
Kevin Freking | Posted 05.25.2011
Scroll down to watch video of Nightline interview. WASHINGTON (AP)- A Nevada man whose wife had an affair with Sen. John Ensign said he discovered th...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011
Doug Hampton, the friend of John Ensign who discovered the Republican Nevada senator was having an affair with his wife, sat down with ABC News to dis...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Sen. John Ensign's former mistress and her husband sought an $8.5 million settlement from the Nevada Republican before the affair b...
The Las Vegas Sun | Posted 05.25.2011
Republican Sen. John Ensign said Monday that not only does he have no intention of resigning in light of his affair and his parents' payout to the wom...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
The husband of John Ensign's mistress spoke publicly for the first time today, claiming that the Nevada Senator continued to pursue his wife, Cynthia ...
Las Vegas Sun | Posted 05.25.2011
In a letter dated five days before Sen. John Ensign's public confession of an extramarital affair, Doug Hampton pleaded to a national Fox News anchorw...
HuffingtonPost.com | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011
Fox New is denying claims that Doug Hampton — whose wife Cynthia is the other woman in Senator John Ensign's sex scandal — sent the networ...
Las Vegas Sun | Posted 05.25.2011
The one-time mistress and campaign treasurer of Sen. John Ensign saw her salary double during the time of the affair, according to federal election do...
Politico | Posted 05.25.2011
The son of the couple at the center of the sex scandal that has engulfed Sen. John Ensign was being paid by National Republican Senatorial Committee i...
AP | DONNA CASSATA | Posted 05.25.2012