Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse backed laws to benefit wife’s company and their ‘financial interests’: ethics complaint

From The New York Post:

The conservative government accountability group Judicial Watch asked the Senate Ethics Committee to “immediately investigate” Whitehouse (D-RI), alleging there was “strong evidence” he “violated ethics conflicts of interest rules,” according to a copy of the Feb. 21 complaint exclusively obtained by The Post.

“Senator Whitehouse seems to have stepped over the line of standard environmental legislative advocacy and used his Senate office to advance his and his wife’s personal and financial interests,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said.

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