Of course that's wy we cannot turn on the television without constantly hearing about the investigations by the Senate ethics committee on him ....... Whats that? .... He was the ranking democrat member? Mollohan was the ranking Democrat on the House Ethics Committee! Mollohan has a cute racket going. He gets earmarks inserted into spending bills for non-profit organizations in his home state - some of which he helped to set up - and then he goes into real estate deals with the heads of these same organizations and makes a killing. For example, Mollohan got $30 million of tax money since 1999 for the Vandalia Heritage Foundation, which redevelops dilapidated buildings. Then, he and his wife bought five empty lots on Bald Head Island, N.C. - worth $2 million - with Laura Kurtz Kuhns, the head of the Vandalia Heritage Foundation, and her husband! He pulled the same trick by buying a farm for $900,000 with Dale R. McBride as his partner after getting McBride's company, FMW Composite Systems, $4.4 million in earmarks to make equipment for NASA and the Marine Corps.
