Congressional ethics chief returns to work after DUI – IOTW Report

Congressional ethics chief returns to work after DUI

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Omar Ashmawy, the chief of the Congressional Ethics Office, has returned to duty just weeks after crashing his car into a Pennsylvania home in September and being charged with driving under the influence, but Republicans about to take control of the House in January are raising fresh concerns about his past conduct and his performance in the sensitive job.

The senior Republicans on the House Administration, Ethics, and Rules Committees have been briefed on the September 2022 DUI incident as well as a 2015 bar fight during which Ashmawy was injured but was later found to have improperly used his congressional position to pressure police to file criminal charges against his antagonists, according to internal correspondence and memos obtained by Just the News.

In the 2015 episode, an independent counsel named by the House to investigate concluded that Ashmawy “attempted to improperly exert pressure” on local police by using his official congressional emails and commenting that “people in Washington DC were following the decision of local authorities,” according to information the cochairmen of the congressional board that supervises Ashmawy sent lawmakers recently. more

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