Top staffer for Democrat Jerry Nadler violating federal law

Buffalo NY

Description

A senior staffer for Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler has violated federal law in the past several years for providing legal services to the congressman’s campaign and leadership PAC, Americans for Public Trust, a watchdog, alleged in an ethics complaint Monday obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Senior staff are barred from being paid through a role involving a “fiduciary relationship, including the practice of law,” according to federal law. “House ethics rules make this simple prohibition abundantly clear: senior staffers cannot be paid to be campaign attorneys,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, told the DCNF. “But Nadler’s team has done exactly that.”