With the Illinois primary election fast approaching, the U.S. House Committee on Ethics should quickly let voters know whether U.S. Rep. Marie Newman, D-Ill., essentially paid an alleged political bribe.
The Office of Congressional Ethics, which is separate from the House Committee on Ethics, has already unanimously concluded there is “substantial reason” to believe Newman offered a federal job to Iymen Chehade — now a foreign policy adviser to her 2022 congressional campaign — in exchange for him agreeing not to run against her in the 2020 Democratic primary.
