Prof. Painter Quoted in NYT on the Senate Ethics Committee's Investigation of Former Senator Ensign

Professor Richard Painter was quoted in a New York Times article on the Senate Ethics Committee's referral to the Justice Department of its conclusion that Senator John Ensign (R NV) had broken the law in covering up an alleged affair. Painter, a former ethics adviser to President Bush, observed that the Justice Department was more careful in deciding whether to prosecute such cases than it had been in the past. The Justice Department, he observed, had been careless in its handling of a corruption case against former Senator Ted Stevens (R AK) a few years ago, amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct.