Ethics Violation Charged

UPI

A liberal watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against Santorum, who is seeking re-election, based on his dealings with a Philadelphia financial firm, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said.

In a statement, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the group that filed the complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee, contended that the transaction violated the Senate ban on gifts "because Sen. Santorum did not meet Philadelphia Trust's client criteria and because the senator was not, in fact, a bank client at the time he received the mortgage."

Maybe it's just me, but I wasn't a customer of the bank that gave me my home's first mortgage either.

CREW's entire complaint is available here.