Two high-power Democrats are facing scrutiny for possible ethics infractions, the House Ethics Committee announced Monday.
Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), are being reviewed by the panel at the recommendation of the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), an independent, bipartisan group that examines ethics complaints and forwards what it considers the most serious cases to the Ethics Committee.
Michael Collins, chief of staff to Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), is also under review, the House panel announced.
As is typically the case, the Ethics Committee did not specify the allegations surrounding the three Democrats. But Lujan has been the subject of complaints filed by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), a conservative watch-dog group, alleging the DCCC chairman violated ethics rules by soliciting campaign donations following the Democrats’ sit-in on the House floor last June to protest Republican inaction on gun reform.
More: thehill.com/homenews/house/339603-high-power-dems-facing-ethics-scrutiny
What, no unattributable quotes from "sources familiar with the matter?"