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Documents obtained by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) from the Department of Justice provide "hard evidence" that former Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) should have been prosecuted after NLPC exposed his questionable financial dealings, and triggered a Justice Department investigation. CREW executive director Melanie Sloantold Politico yesterday, "It was clear the Justice Department should have indicted Mollohan." Mollohan was defeated for re-election in 2010 in a Democratic primary. His ethics woes were a key issue in the campaign. Although we have not yet had the opportunity to study the underlying documents, CREW has released a very concise...

A watchdog group continues to call on the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release documents from a four-year investigation of Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-W.Va.). Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) previously filed Freedom of Information Act requests and administrative appeals seeking information about why the DOJ did not bring charges against Mollohan.In 2006, the DOJ and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launched an investigation on Mollohan and his connections to five non-profit organizations he created that were managed by close friends and real estate partners.Mollohan allegedly directed more than $250 million in earmarks to the non-profits...

"Recall that Alan Mollohan (D-WV) is a former chair of the House Ethics Committee. That's the same Mollohan under federal investigation after the National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint with the department regarding a bizarre increase in Mollohan's net worth. For 2005, Mollohan and his wife reported assets worth $6.8 million to $25.7 million, up from $116,000 to $315,000 in 1999. His financial disclosure restatements came only after the group's complaint." --Doug Ross, Draining the Swamp NOTE: If the reader is a resident of WV-1 and feels moved to contact Alan Mollohan's office, contact information is provided throughout...

WASHINGTON--The Associated Press is reporting that Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-West Virginia, is in line to become chairman of a subcommittee that oversees the FBI's budget, even though he's the subject of an FBI probe: Mollohan, whose personal finances have come under scrutiny, is now the top Democrat on the appropriations subcommittee that sets the budget for the Justice Department.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Sept. 28 -- Nine college-age guys stood silently Thursday morning across the street from Rep. Alan B. Mollohan's (W.Va.) office, holding signs that read "Be My Cellmate" and "Man of Steal." They were trying to bring attention to allegations that the Democratic incumbent used his congressional power to get rich and reward friends. But few people were listening. "We just want some answers," says Tommy Phillips, 25, who helped organize the rather flaccid protest. There is only one way for Republicans to win in this Democratic district: convince voters that Mollohan is a crook. The lunchtime protest is...

   You And Them May 11, 2006 Before you condemn Democrat Rep. Patrick Kennedy for appearing “to be intoxicated when he crashed his car into a barrier on Capitol Hill”, just consider how much more embarrassing national leaders can be when they really try.   On the other side of the pond, British Liberal MP Mark Oaten resigned his leadership position after it was revealed that the married father of two young daughters had a predilection for hiring rent boys to “humiliate him with a bizarre sex act too revolting to describe”.  There is getting shitfaced and then...there is getting shitfaced! Kennedy,...

A land deal involving a Democratic congressman and a defense contractor he helped receive a federal contract has come under scrutiny. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan, a 12-term congressman from West Virginia, last year jointly purchased a 300-acre farm along his state’s Cheat River along with Dale R. McBride, chief executive of FMW Composite Systems Inc. of Bridgeport, W.Va. Mollohan’s real estate holdings and financial disclosures have drawn the attention of federal investigators, and the farm purchase "is the most direct tie yet disclosed between Rep. Mollohan and a beneficiary of the federal spending he has steered toward his home state,”...

West Virginia Congressman Alan Mollohan's opponent in this year's general election is "holding his feet to the fire" after reports that Mollohan's finances are under investigation and that he may have profited personally from federal funds he helped obtain for various entities.

House Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was aware of the story being developed against one of her members, Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV), and his questionable finances and the ensuing political troubles, yet did nothing to act on that knowledge. The Wall Street Journal last week reported that Mollohan's income and assets grew from the mundane (no more than $565,000 in 2000) to the magnificent (about $6 million, give or take a couple hundred thou in 2004). As the weekend wore down, while House Speaker Dennis Hastert was calling for Mollohan to step aside as ranking member on the House Ethics...

WASHINGTON — Rep. Lamar Smith was urged to step down as chairman of the House ethics panel on Friday — even though he doesn't hold that title — by the chairmen of the Democratic Party in Texas and Ohio. In a letter to Smith and Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-W.V., the ranking Democrat on the ethics panel, the state party chairmen said Smith's involvement in a San Antonio fund-raiser for a political action committee founded by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay poses a conflict of interest. "We are writing to ask you to step aside as chairman of the House Committee...