Source: The Hill
by Kedric Payne
“When Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) resigned from the House of Representatives in 2010, just hours before the Office of Congressional Ethics was set to release a report on its ethics investigation into his actions, it was undoubtedly to protect his ongoing gubernatorial bid from any backlash. I was one of OCE’s very first investigators at the time, where we had the responsibility of bringing an independent, nonpartisan eye to accusations of congressional ethics violations. Despite his resignation, the OCE decided unanimously that the public had a right to know whether Deal had met the rigorous standards to which we hold our elected officials. … Justice shouldn’t have a time limit. Creating a loophole where representatives can withhold information from the public by resigning at the right moment is a dangerous precedent and why we have chosen to release ethics reports on former representatives in the past …” (11/24/24)
https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/5005311-gaetz-resignation-ethics-report/