Steve Buyer

Watchdog Files Ethics And IRS Complaints Against GOP Rep Over Iffy Foundation

Justin Elliott | January 25, 2010, 11:23AM

Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN) golfing in 2006

Zeroing in on Rep. Steve Buyer's questionable charity, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington today asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate whether Buyer "violated ethics rules by abusing a charity for private purposes and by trading legislative assistance for donations to the charity and a job for his son."

The watchdog is also asking the IRS to probe whether the Indiana Republican's Frontier Foundation "violated federal tax law by failing to operate for its stated public purpose of helping needy students and by doing little more than paying for the congressman to play golf with donors with interests before his committee."

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