Congressional investigators have probed whether Rep. Alex X. Mooney misused taxpayer money by having staff perform personal errands and tried to determine whether he tampered with a previous ethics inquiry into his campaign spending, according to documents obtained by CQ Roll Call.
Those questions — and others — were contained in letters sent from the Office of Congressional Ethics in August and September 2021 asking people in the West Virginia Republican’s orbit for any information that could be relevant to a second investigation the office undertook into Mooney’s conduct.
“Alex Mooney continues to cooperate fully with the investigation and we look forward to its resolution,” Ryan Kelly, a spokesperson for Mooney, said in a statement.
