The House Ethics Committee has found no evidence of intentional misuse of campaign funds by U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt and three other members of Congress, despite reporting and recordkeeping concerns.
The House Ethics Committee has cleared U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt and three other members of Congress for allegedly spending campaign funds for their personal use. In a statement Monday, the House Ethics Committee announced that there was evidence of reporting and recordkeeping problems in some of the cases, however, there was no evidence that any member intentionally misused campaign funds for their personal benefit.
Hunt had been accused of spending $74,000 in campaign funds to get access to a private social club in Houston. Hunt spent the money at the Post Oak Hotel and its exclusive Oak Room between April 2022 and January 2024, according to a report from the Office of Congressional Ethics, which triggered the committee investigation. At the time, his lawyers said Hunt used the hotel and club space essentially as a campaign office since he does not independently maintain one, and the hotel is in his district. Hunt used the Oak Room for campaign-related meetings with donors and vendors, and he hosted his 2022 election night party at the hotel, they said. All of the Hunt for Congress payments to the Post Oak Hotel, including for membership in the Post Oak Club, were exclusively for campaign-related purposes and not for any personal purposes, the lawyers wrote, adding that investigators’ tacit position that campaign payments for ‘social club’ membership dues are per se prohibited is so lacking in legal basis that OCE itself is not even willing to state this position clearly and explicitly. The House Ethics Committee had also been reviewing similar issues related to U.S. Reps. Ronny Jackson, R-Amarillo; Sanford Bishop, D-Georgia, and Alexander Mooney, R-West Virginia
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