Rep. Ortiz’s earmark and trips raise suspicions
Yet another member of Congress has been caught in a very suspicious relationship with a business or entity that has benefited from the member's congressional earmark. According to Roll Call:
Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas) has accepted tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of trips to China from a development corporation in his hometown that he aided by securing earmarks and other federal assistance worth millions of dollars.
Ortiz has also traveled on at least one of these trips with his former chief of staff, Lencho Rendon, who was working for Ortiz when he secured a $5 million earmark for the Robstown Improvement Development Corp. The corporation has now hired Rendon as a consultant.
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