Doug Hampton: Money From Ensigns Was ‘Severance’

• By John Stanton
• Roll Call Staff
• Nov. 19, 2009, 9:32 p.m.

Doug Hampton, the former top aide to Sen. John Ensign whose wife had an affair with the Nevada Republican, is alleging the nearly $100,000 that the lawmaker’s parents paid him from their personal accounts after he discovered the affair was “severance” and not a gift as Ensign has claimed.