Ethics panel eyes Caribbean trip taken by members of Congressional Black Caucus
After receiving a referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics, the House ethics committee announced in June that it would create an investigative subcommittee to look into “officially connected travel in 2007 and 2008 that was sponsored, funded or organized by an organization known as Carib News or Carib News Foundation.”
The panel publicly named five Democratic lawmakers who were under scrutiny — Reps. Charles B. Rangel (N.Y.), Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (Mich.), Donald M. Payne (N.J.) and Bennie Thompson (Miss.), and Del. Donna M. Christian-Christensen (U.S. Virgin Islands). The inquiry stemmed from reports in the Hill and the New York Post newspapers raising questions about an annual conference at a St. Maarten resort that the lawmakers attended.
Washington Post
10/30/9
