
Dem senator's 'dark money corruption' hypocrisy revealed in ethics complaint, expert says
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Legal experts are sounding off on whether an alleged ethical violation by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse should be investigated.
"This is the height of hypocrisy," Brett Tolman, former U.S. attorney and executive director of Right On Crime, told Fox News Digital. "Sen Whitehouse is a former US attorney and the self-proclaimed watchdog of dark money." Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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Whitehouse spokesperson Stephen DeLeo told Fox News Digital in a statement, "The ‘legal experts’ at Fox News should review the bipartisan dismissal issued by the Senate Ethics Committee the last time a dark-money group attempted these same kinds of smears."