The House Ethics Committee won’t pursue an investigation of New York Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman for setting off a fire alarm in a Capitol office building last fall ahead of a high-pressure vote on government funding.
Further review of the incident would be “moot,” said Chairman Michael Guest, R-Miss., and ranking member Susan Wild, D-Pa., in a statement released Thursday. They cited a December censure of Bowman by his House colleagues and the fact that he pleaded guilty in October to a misdemeanor charge.
“In light of the House’s intervening censure of Representative Bowman, the Committee determined that further review of Representative Bowman’s conduct would be moot. The Committee has separately confirmed that Representative Bowman has complied with the relevant terms of his deferred sentencing agreement,” the statement said.
