US Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania reprimanded by House ethics panel

[SouthBayDem]

1. The Tribune-Review is a right wing paper

subsidized by Mellon family money.

Here is an original story from Pittsburgh's more popular Post-Gazette:

U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly violated congressional ethics rules and refused to fully cooperate with an investigation into insider trading by him and his wife, the House Ethics Committee said in a report Friday.

The committee stopped short of saying the Kellys broke laws against insider trading or conflicts of interest, but members reprimanded the Butler Republican for his lack of “candor” with investigators who were looking into whether Mr. Kelly used privileged information and his powerful Congressional perch for personal financial gain.

The yearslong probe into the Kellys started after his wife, Victoria, bought $23,000 worth of stock in a steel company in 2020 — a purchase that would earn the couple a massive $64,500 profit in less than nine months.

When his wife bought the stock, Mr. Kelly was engaged in an intense effort to lobby the first Trump administration to issue protective tariffs for the company, Cleveland-Cliffs, which had for months warned that it might shutter factories in Butler and Zanesville, Ohio.