Statement of the Chair and Ranking Republican Member of the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct Regarding Its Report in the Matter of Allegations Relating to the Lobbying Activities of Paul Magliochetti and Associates Group, Inc. (PMA)

Statement

The Standards Committee has unanimously voted to release a public Report finding that, based upon the totality of current information gathered during the past nine months, no House Member or employee violated any provision of the Code of Official Conduct or any law, rule, regulation, or other standard of conduct applicable to his or her conduct in the performance of his or her duties or the discharge of his or her responsibilities relating to proposed appropriations requests and activities of the former lobbying group, Paul Magliocchetti and Associates Group, Inc., known as PMA. The Standards Committee’s staff reviewed close to one-quarter of a million pages of documents. The investigation covered more than 40 companies with ties to PMA and more than 25 Member offices. It involved interviews with CEOs of companies, and chiefs of staff and military legislative aides to Members, among other staffers. Accordingly, the Standards Committee hereby closes its investigation in the above-­captioned matter, which includes the dismissal of seven separate matters that the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) forwarded to the Standards Committee.

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• Statement on ethics.house.gov
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• Document 2 (PDF)

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