A Conflict Of Interest?

RAWSTORY reports:

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced that she had picked ten colleagues to serve on subcommittees that investigate alleged Congressional ethics violations. But two of the ten Democratic Congressional members selected also donated money to Rep. William Jefferson, the Louisiana Democrat who was indicted on 16 public corruption counts on Monday and may soon be the target of a congressional ethics probe, RAW STORY has learned.

The ten Democrats will be serving in Pelosi's 'ethics pool,' a group of House members who can be appointed to investigative subcommittees by the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct in order to look into ethical complaints. But two of the group, Reps. Barbara Lee (CA) and Gregory Meeks (NY) have donated money to the campaign and the legal defense funds of Rep. Jefferson, who is alleged to have received bribes related to a business venture in Nigeria, among other crimes.

EARTH TO DEMOCRATS: Saying the 110th Congress will be "the most honest and ethical one in history" is nothing more than empty rhetoric if you don't clean up your own backyard. Nor can you claim that you are any different then the Repubs. Something about logs and eyes comes to mind here...

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