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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (55030)	3/2/2006 9:29:07 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 93284

Another Democrat crook Two accuse Conyers Two former aides to Rep. John Conyers Jr., Michigan Democrat, have charged that he repeatedly violated House ethics rules, the Hill newspaper reports. Deanna Maher, a former deputy chief of staff in Mr. Conyers' Detroit office, and Sydney Rooks, a former legal counsel in that office, shared numerous letters, memorandums and copies of e-mails, handwritten notes and expense reports with the Hill, reporter Jonathan E. Kaplan wrote. In letters sent separately by each woman to the House ethics committee, the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office, they said Mr. Conyers demanded that aides work on several local and state campaigns and forced them to baby-sit and chauffeur his children. They also charge that some aides illegally used Mr. Conyers' congressional offices to enrich themselves. Miss Maher said she no longer could work for Mr. Conyers in such an unethical environment and quit in May 2005. Miss Rooks had left Mr. Conyers years earlier; she was a full-time staffer at the office from 1997 to 1999. Before she left, Mr. Conyers placed her on paid administrative leave for several months. He stopped paying her in April 2000. "I could not tolerate any longer being involved with continual unethical, if not criminal, practices which were accepted as 'business as usual,' " Miss Maher wrote in a letter to the ethics panel dated Jan. 13. A spokesman in Mr. Conyers' office referred questions to Stanley Brand, a lawyer who regularly defends public officials charged with wrongdoing, the Hill reports. Mr. Brand said, "We've responded fully and completely over two years ago to what the ethics committee sent to us, and we've not heard anything since then."