{"id":413213,"date":"2010-03-10T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78954"},"modified":"2010-03-10T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T22:56:46","slug":"report-house-drops-massa-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413213","title":{"rendered":"Report: House Drops Massa Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post is <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/03\/ethics-committee-closes-invest.html?hpid=topnews\">reporting<\/a> that the House Ethics Committee has closed its probe into former Rep. Eric Massa&#8217;s (D-N.Y.) alleged harassment of staffers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> Looks like Massa&#8217;s resignation might have been a shrewd move. From the Post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The committee concluded that Massa&#8217;s resignation put him outside the  reach of any punishment the committee could dole out, and would render  any findings of wrongdoing irrelevant. But the move appears likely to  set up a political battle with House Republicans, who are already  complaining in campaign ads that Congressional Democrats are unwilling  to look too deeply into or punish the ethical transgressions of their  own.<span id=\"more-78954\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Republicans signaled Wednesday morning, just before the House ethics  committee was set to hold a meeting, that they wanted the probe to  continue. Republicans sources said that the public deserved to know who  in the House Democratic leadership knew about the swirling allegations  and what they did upon learning that congressional staffers might be  victims of harassment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post is reporting that the House Ethics Committee has closed its probe into former Rep. Eric Massa&#8217;s (D-N.Y.) alleged harassment of staffers. Update: Looks like Massa&#8217;s resignation might have been a shrewd move. From the Post: The committee concluded that Massa&#8217;s resignation put him outside the reach of any punishment the committee could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413213","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\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}