John Ensign

Ensign Called Parents' Payment To Lover 'Severance' Until Lawyer Told Him Not To

Ryan J. Reilly | May 12, 2011, 4:35PM

If you asked former Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) about that $96,000 his parents gave to his mistress and her husband, he would say it wasn't a form of severance, it was simply a generous gift. But that wasn't what he called it originally.

The Senate Ethics Committee's report on Ensign's ethics violations reveals that Ensign himself called the $96,000 payout a "severance" in a draft version of his 2009 statement on his affair until his lawyer told him that wasn't such a good idea.

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Topics: Chris Gober, Cindy Hampton, Doug Hampton, FEC, John Ensign, Rebecca Fisher, Senate Ethics Committee, Tony Mazzola