Lansing City Council member accused of ethics violations, exchanging favors for support
A City Council member for the City of Lansing is accused of taking favors in exchange for his vote of support.
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A City Council member for the City of Lansing is accused of taking favors in exchange for his vote of support.
Americans to understand the full complexity of american democracy, and how it's a crisis in this moment with fundamental freedoms being taken away. >> i want to get into more detail about expanding the court and the ethics rules that you would like to see impose their on another night when we have more time in the program to do so. this is such a worthy and important subject. alexis mcgill johnson, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up, joe biden's reelection campaign was launched on the strength of one word. it is the same word that launched repu...
Faces a federal ethics investigation. nbc's ken dilanian has been following this for us. tell us about it. >> this is one of the biggest scandals involving a u.s. attorney, accusing rachel rollins of serious misconduct, including violating federal law by lying under oath and using her office for political purposes, the doj's inspector general said in a 155-page report that she used her position to help a candidate for district attorney by trying to plant a story that the justice department would be investigating the candidate's opponent for public corruption. the ig said she falsely testified ...
Anything like it. [laughter] >> look, they should investigate this fully, the indictment should be pursued, i am perfectly willing to believe there is underlying criminal behavior, but let's continue to have just as much and attention in the less glamorous crimes members of congress may have committed with the insider trading, all the people in congress who knew covid was coming and went and dumped stocks, bought stocks. let's not concentrate too much on this one because really kind of funny. howard: there is a lot of corruption particularly on the thing, you know, questions about insider trad...
The table while he has business before the supreme court. thomas has not responded to any of the most recent charges and after the first story came out about the vacations he issued a statement said he didn't think the trips with close personal friends were reportable. democrats are demanding a formal ing ethics code for the supreme court, which has no ethical code of conduct that governors every other federal judge in america. and most republicans are afraid of angering the base or looking like you're giving the left anything are rallying around thomas using what-aboutism and rejecting any ti...