The Office of Congressional Ethics is investigating the C Street townhouse owned by the mafia-inspired Christianist group "The Family."
Members of Congress who live in the C Street House pay $950/month for private rooms in a $1.8 million townhouse, steps from the Capitol, with maid service and laundry included. How can the building's owner afford such a deal? Easy -- the C Street house is classified as a church.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint in April. The OCE's job is to vet complaints and refer cases to the appropriate ethics committee.
Congressmen who live in the house have been downplaying the unusual nature of the situation ever since the John Ensign and Mark Sanford scandals thrust the house into the limelight. The OCE investigation could be abandoned within 30 days or go on for three months before its taken up by the ethics committee.
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