Poor Denny
Nov 28th, 2006 at 10:29 am by Susie
WASHINGTON — A government watchdog group Monday called for an official investigation into whether House Speaker Dennis Hastert broke the law by pushing for federal funding of a highway project near land he owned west of Chicago.
Hastert (R-Ill.) and two partners turned a profit of more than $3 million last year on land they bought and sold near the proposed route of the Prairie Parkway—earnings that the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington say the investors got because of federal funding pushed by Hastert.
The group is asking the Justice Department to investigate Hastert’s actions.
“It looks like Hastert may have broken the law,” said Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW. “You are not allowed to use the legislative process purely for your own personal financial benefit, which is what appears to have happened here.”
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That is all that my Republican Congressman, Gary Miller, does. He’s a back-bencher so I guess that’s why he doesn’t get investigated.