Your current location:HOME >business >Ethics committee dismisses complaint against Missouri speaker 正文
TIME:2024-05-21 07:25:34 Source: Internet compilationEdit:business
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A panel of lawmakers dismissed on Monday an ethics complaint against Spea
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A panel of lawmakers dismissed on Monday an ethics complaint against Speaker Dean Plocher, breaking from a Republican who argued that Plocher used his power as the House leader to block an investigation.
Members voted 7-2 to dismiss allegations against Plocher for misuse of taxpayer dollars, using his influence to push a pricey contract with a company with ties to his employer, and retaliating against staffers who raised complaints. One Democrat voted present.
“From the outset of this investigation, I’ve maintained my innocence,” Plocher told reporters after the hearing. “The Ethics Committee has finally reached the very same conclusion that I offered everybody back in November, and they vindicated me.”
Plocher is running as a Republican for Missouri secretary of state.
Republican Ethics Committee Chair Hannah Kelly, appointed to the position by Plocher, sought to dismiss the case “due to the inability of the committee to finish the investigation as a direct result of obstruction of the process and intimidation of witnesses by the respondent.”
Yvette Fielding says her Most Haunted co2024-05-21 07:25
Tear gas as crowds clash with riot police in Russia2024-05-21 07:22
Wellington's Tuesday dinners celebrates 'amazing collection of people' 25 years on2024-05-21 07:14
New Zealand joins 50 countries in condemning transfer of weapons between North Korea and Russia2024-05-21 07:04
Analysis: Larson enters conversation with Verstappen as best drivers in the world2024-05-21 06:59
Japan's lunar craft lands successfully but can't generate solar power2024-05-21 06:46
Tame Iti brings Haki Ātea to Waitangi2024-05-21 05:49
US warns China will use Olympics to gloss over abuses2024-05-21 05:46
Tom Brady and Jay2024-05-21 05:40
Traffic updates: Easter weekend set to begin2024-05-21 05:39
Iran helicopter crash that killed President Raisi could reverberate across the Middle East2024-05-21 07:12
Japan's lunar craft lands successfully but can't generate solar power2024-05-21 07:09
'No realistic possibility' foreign agency will reveal if spy system used for war2024-05-21 06:44
Whakaari/White Island owners appealing criminal conviction2024-05-21 05:52
Georgia Republicans choose Amy Kremer, organizer of pro2024-05-21 05:43
Police chief charged over Seoul Halloween crush that killed 1592024-05-21 05:40
Mysterious 'Big Ring' found in space 'must surely be telling us something'2024-05-21 05:34
Screening of Hong Kong Poly U siege documentary slammed by pro2024-05-21 05:22
Tom Brady and Jay2024-05-21 05:14
Seymour promise reveals tension at the heart of government2024-05-21 04:44