{"id":388117,"date":"2010-03-04T07:47:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/04\/malkin-and-hannity-falsely-claimed-rep-stark-has-an-ethics-scandal\/"},"modified":"2010-03-04T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T12:47:57","slug":"malkin-and-hannity-falsely-claimed-rep-stark-has-an-%e2%80%9cethics-scandal%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388117","title":{"rendered":"Malkin and Hannity falsely claimed Rep. Stark has an \u201cethics scandal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Malkin and Hannity falsely claimed Rep. Stark has an “ethics scandal” <\/a><\/p>\n

On Fox News’ Hannity,<\/em> Michelle Malkin falsely claimed that Rep. Pete Stark has “his own ethics scandal … regarding a house that he claimed deductions for apparently in Maryland.” In fact, the House ethics committee flatly rejected these allegations and concluded that Stark did not seek a Maryland property tax credit and did not violate Maryland law or House rules.<\/p>\n

From the March 3 edition of Fox News’ Hannity<\/em>: <\/p>\n

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HANNITY: The story gets more interesting now, because you’ve got [Rep. Charles] Rangel’s [D-NY] successor [as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee], a guy by the name of Congressman Pete Stark [D-CA], who himself has been investigated for ethics violations.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

MALKIN: And then, of course, his own ethics scandal, as you mentioned, regarding a house that he claimed deductions for apparently in Maryland, and then he went and cussed the people who were investigating that as well. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ethics committee flatly rejected allegations against Stark<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ethics committee: Stark did not violate Maryland law or House rules.<\/strong> In a January 29 report<\/a>, the House ethics committee flatly rejected allegations that Stark “violated Maryland criminal tax law and ethics rules of the House of Representatives by intentionally filing a false application for a Maryland property tax credit.” The ethics committee found that Stark “did not violate House ethics rules. Nor did he run afoul of Maryland’s criminal or tax laws.”<\/p>\n

Ethics committee: Stark did not “seek” tax credit and did not “file a false application.”<\/strong> The ethics committee found: <\/p>\n

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The evidence clearly establishes that Representative Stark did not receive a tax credit as a result of filing an application for the credit. The evidence also establishes that he did not file a false application for the Maryland property tax credit.<\/p>\n

Representative Stark did not seek out the Maryland property tax credit. The State of Maryland required every homeowner in Maryland to fill out a form to determine their eligibility for the tax credit.<\/p>\n

Therefore, Representative Stark did not violate House ethics rules. Nor did he run afoul of Maryland’s criminal or tax laws. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Malkin and Hannity falsely claimed Rep. Stark has an “ethics scandal” On Fox News’ Hannity, Michelle Malkin falsely claimed that Rep. Pete Stark has “his own ethics scandal … regarding a house that he claimed deductions for apparently in Maryland.” In fact, the House ethics committee flatly rejected these allegations and concluded that Stark did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}