AZ-06: Ethics Committee to Investigate Schweikert and Chief Over Finances
The House Ethics Committee has established an investigative subcommittee to discover whether Rep. David Schweikert and his chief of staff, Oliver Schwab, violated multiple campaign finance and official congressional funds laws.
Committee members unanimously voted to continue the investigation, which Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe of Texas will lead.
Reps. Rodney Davis, an Illinois Republican, and Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, will round out the investigative subcommittee.
chweikert told Fox News reporter Chad Pergram that he asked the committee for the probe. Some monies were mislabeled he said.
“This was a clerical screw-up,” he told Pergram. “It’s my fault. Our fault. We should have caught it.”
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