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What Happens In Vegas: Senate Investigators Interview Witnesses In Ensign Probe
Zachary Roth | May 7, 2010, 9:31AM
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)
The Senate Ethics committee's investigation of the John Ensign sex-and-lobbying scandal is in full swing.
Investigators for the panel were holed up in a Las Vegas hotel yesterday, where they interviewed several key figures in the case, KLAS-TV reports. A woman "who looks just like" Cynthia Hampton, Ensign's former mistress, was seen entering the hotel, accompanied by her husband's lawyer, Dan Albregts, says the station. She stayed for two hours.
Topics: Doug Hampton, John Ensign, Justice Department, Las Vegas, NRSC, R&R Partners, Republicans, Senate Ethics Committee, Sig Rogich
John Ensign
Ensign Asked Top Nevada GOP Consultant To Meet With Hampton
Zachary Roth | March 19, 2010, 9:38AM
Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)
Add another name to the list of people Sen. John Ensign (R-NV) approached in his desperate bid to find a job for Doug Hampton after sleeping with Hampton's wife.
Sig Rogich, a veteran Nevada GOP political consultant met with investigators, and told them that he had a meeting with Hampton after "Ensign had asked me to meet him," according to what Rogich told Politico. "I told [Hampton] at a 10-minute meeting I did not have" a job for him, Rogich, a former Reagan administration communications aide, added. "That was it basically."
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