Sloan added even if there was an ethics complaint surrounding the matter, the reimbursements “mean they’re done over at Ethics. The worst that could happen is he could get a letter from the Ethics Committee.”
The Senate Ethics Committee has not commented on whether Menendez is under investigation.
Sloan said that as far as the FBI is concerned, “nobody wants to be in the FBI’s sights.”
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