WASHINGTON -- New York members of the House are keeping the ethics committee awfully busy these days, with yet another member of the delegation being referred for investigation, this time Rep. Gregory Meeks.
The Office of Congressional Ethics revealed on Friday that it has asked the full ethics committee to look into its finding that Meeks (D-N.Y.) had taken a gift of $40,000 from a friend and businessman named Edul Ahmad.
Meeks said the payment was actually a personal loan that he took in 2007 to help finish work on his new $860,000 home.
But Meeks failed to report the loan on any of his financial disclosure forms -- as required -- until 2010. The New York Daily News reported that Meeks came forward after the FBI started investigating Ahmad and discovered the payment.
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