No Sign of Life in Jefferson Ethics Probe

By Susan Davis
Roll Call Staff

May 24, 2007, 12 a.m.

More than a year after the House ethics committee voted to launch an investigation into the activities of embattled Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.), the panel appears to have stalled in that effort and it is unclear if it has pursued the matter at all since Democrats took control of the chamber in January.

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