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Sen. John Ensign scandal

By Tiffany Brown · June 16, 2009 · 4:02 p.m.

Sen. John Ensign speaks to the media about an affair he had with a former staffer Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at the Lloyd George Federal Building in Las Vegas. (Related story).

Ensign's former aide reaches deal with federal prosecutors
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
By Karoun Demirjian
Former U.S. Sen. John Ensign’s chief aide Doug Hampton appears to have reached a deal with federal prosecutors to settle charges he violated a cooling off period prohibiting congressional employees from lobbying for at least a year after they leave their jobs.
In wake of Limbaugh flap, a look at some notable gaffes by Nevada politicos
POLITICS: Nevada political figures have a history of foot-in-mouth disease, as well
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
By Michael Squires
Rush Limbaugh stirred controversy last week by calling a female law student a “slut” for her testimony before Congress on contraception and health insurance.
Pre-trial schedule set for former aide to Sen. John Ensign
Friday, January 13, 2012
By Karoun Demirjian
WASHINGTON -- A trial for Doug Hampton, the ex-chief of staff and former friend of former Sen. John Ensign, won’t happen until the fall at earliest, after lawyers for the prosecution and defense agreed on a pre-trial schedule today that will stretch over eight months.
Rick Santorum speaks to the media after the GOP presidential debate sponsored by CNN on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at the Venetian.
Husband cuckolded by Ensign rips rising Santorum
POLITICS:
Monday, January 9, 2012
By Anjeanette Damon
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum betrayed his professed family values when he tipped off his friend, former Sen. John Ensign, that a story about his extramarital affair was about to break, said Doug Hampton, husband of the woman with whom Ensign had been having the affair.
January hearing set for John Ensign aide in lobbying case
Friday, September 30, 2011
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A one-time aide to Nevada's former Republican U.S. Sen. John Ensign could head to trial next year in a Washington criminal case alleging he illegally lobbied Ensign.
Sen. John Ensign announces he will not seek another term in 2012 during a news conference at the Lloyd George Federal Building in Las Vegas on Monday, March 7, 2011.
Could an Edwards indictment be precursor of one for Ensign?
Letter From Washington:
Sunday, May 29, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian
The federal indictment that is due any day now for former presidential candidate and Sen. John Edwards, who fathered a child with a campaign staffer and then tried to cover it up, is raising speculation around Washington about another similarly scandal-ridden senator: John Ensign.
Senator’s web snared Nevada’s elite pols
Letter From Washington:
Sunday, May 15, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian, Delen Goldberg
The people named in the Senate Ethics Committee’s probe of former Sen. John Ensign’s actions in the wake of his affair read like a who’s who of Nevada’s power elite.
Does ethics report put John Ensign in legal jeopardy?
Friday, May 13, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian
A few months ago, things were looking up for then-Sen. John Ensign. First, the Federal Elections Commission dropped its investigation against him, then the Justice Department decided it didn’t have the goods to move on an indictment. By the end of last year, it looked like the legal skies were clearing above him, and Ensign got such a spring in his step that he started take steps toward a reelection campaign.
John Ensign report provides insight into Nevada's entrenched political structure
Friday, May 13, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian, Delen Goldberg
The people named in the Senate Ethics Committee’s report on former Sen. John Ensign reads like a who’s who of Nevada’s power elite.
Sen. John Ensign announces he will not seek another term in 2012 during a news conference at the Lloyd George Federal Building in Las Vegas on Monday, March 7, 2011.
Six things revealed about John Ensign
Senate Investigation:
Friday, May 13, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian
From the time Sen. John Ensign went public with his extramarital affair in 2009 and his resignation from the Senate on May 3, Nevadans learned much about the once-rising star’s stunning fall.
Soon-to-be-Sen. Dean Heller talks to reporters outside the Senate chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday after attending the Republican senators' weekly policy planning lunch. Heller will be sworn in as Nevada's 25th senator at 2 p.m. Monday.
Dean Heller gets informal welcome to U.S. Senate
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian
He doesn’t pick up the title of senator until his swearing-in Monday afternoon, but Rep. Dean Heller crossed the Capitol today for his first function in his role-to-be on Tuesday, joining GOP senators for their weekly policy planning lunch.
Sen. John Ensign announces he will not seek another term in 2012 during a news conference at the Lloyd George Federal Building in Las Vegas on Monday, March 7, 2011. Ensign's wife, Darlene, stands by him at left.
How moral failure took down Sen. John Ensign
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON:
Sunday, April 24, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian
When John Ensign was making his first bid to be a senator, another public figure in Washington — the president at the time — was in political cross hairs for an affair he had with a staffer named Monica Lewinsky.
Ensign’s fall from grace reinforces worst political stereotypes
Sunday, April 24, 2011
By Jon Ralston
The details of the John Ensign saga are uniquely Nevadan, a grotesquerie of small-state politics with a former casino executive bringing the amoral industry culture to a place where such an ethos is prized and then being undone by his own narcissism and superficiality.
Sen. John Ensign announces he will not seek another term in 2012 during a news conference at the Lloyd George Federal Building in Las Vegas on Monday, March 7, 2011. Ensign's wife, Darlene, stands by him at left.
Until the end, John Ensign a master of close-call politics
Friday, April 22, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian
For someone who seemed, at the end, to have no friends in the party, on the books Sen. John Ensign is a master of close-call politics of the sort that the GOP could stand to mimic in the coming cycle.
Left: Rep. Dean Heller speaks at the grand opening of the Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter on Dec. 4, 2009. Right: Rep. Shelley Berkley laughs with constituents during a "Congress on the Corner" event Jan. 14, 2011, at her Las Vegas office.
Heller appointment to Senate changes campaign calculus
Friday, April 22, 2011
By Karoun Demirjian
Until Gov. Brian Sandoval dubs a successor for Sen. John Ensign, it’s difficult to predict what is in store between now and Nov. 6, 2012. But the election between presumptive nominees Reps. Shelley Berkley and Dean Heller will come down to what they do representing Nevada in Washington.

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