A House panel tasked with investigating potential corruption charges against fellow members of Congress on Friday called on a Pennsylvania Republican to divest his family’s holdings from a steel manufacturer, citing concerns around the appearance of wrongdoing.
The bipartisan Ethics Committee had been investigating a complaint that Rep. Mike Kelly’s wife bought stock in Cleveland-Cliffs, an Ohio-based company, based on non-public information gleaned from Kelly’s position as an elected official. Although Kelly’s wife was not fully cooperative with the probe, the panel “did not find evidence that [the lawmaker] knowingly or intentionally caused…
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