Curt Weldon's district paper, the Delco Times, ran an extensive article on "Beyond DeLay" which named Weldon one of the 20 most corrupt Members of Congress. Weldon naturally blasted the report, but the article covered the extent of Weldon's corrupt dealings:

"Part of the problem with Pennsylvania officials is a lot of them have been entrenched there for a very long time, and the longer you’re in Congress, the more likely you are to start abusing your position," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW. Sloan is a former federal prosecutor who worked for Democratic lawmakers throughout the 1990s.

The CREW report compiles news reports in which Weldon, a member of the House since 1987, is described as using his powerful congressional position to help his daughters, Kim and Karen, son Andrew, longtime friend Cecelia "CeCe" Grimes and close political associate Charles Sexton Jr.

Weldon, vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, has disputed some of the accounts, which show that Grimes, Sexton and the congressman’s children benefited financially from companies he supported, including Boeing, Oto Melara and Saratov Aviation.

The Los Angeles Times reported in February 2004 that Karen Weldon and Sexton -- Springfield’s Republican leader and a Weldon campaign adviser -- received nearly $1 million worth of public relations contracts from Russian and European interests that Weldon assisted. The congressman said he provided the House Ethics Committee with documentation related to those cases and the committee took no disciplinary action. CREW asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate, but has not heard from the department to date, Sloan said.

The newspaper reported this January that Grimes, a local realtor and Weldon family friend, has earned tens of thousands of dollars worth of lobbyist fees from defense contractors with strong ties to Weldon.

Furthermore, the Web site of Harper’s magazine found that Kim Weldon works for AugustaWestland, the helicopter division of Finmeccanica. Weldon reportedly helped the firm beat out a rival for a presidential helicopter bid. The site reported in July that Andrew Weldon, a racecar driver, is sponsored by Schaffer Motorsports, owned by a senior Boeing Co. employee. Boeing is Weldon’s top campaign contributor and the congressman is a strong proponent of the V-22 Osprey, manufactured at the company’s Ridley Township plant.

The constant refrain from the those members named in Beyond DeLay is that CREW is partisan. That's not true but it's their only defense. Beyond DeLay included several Democrats, and as Melanie Sloan explained that Republicans, as the party in power, have more options for corruption:

"You have to have power to abuse it," Sloan said.