ASHEVILLE - An overdue financial disclosure form appears to provide the "smoking gun" of an ethics violation by Rep. Madison Cawthorn and might indicate criminal activity, according to law, finance and ethics experts.
An ethics expert with the watchdog Campaign Legal Center and a director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, reacted May 31 to a past-due financial transaction report recently filed by the Western North Carolina congressman.
The "Periodic Transaction Report" comes a week after the House Ethics Committee announced it would investigate Cawthorn's relationship with a staffer and the allegation he "improperly promoted a cryptocurrency in which he may have had an undisclosed financial interest."
Cawthorn's report, which was due no later than February but was submitted months after that, along with a story by the Washington Examiner, showed the Henderson County Republican using his position for personal gain, said...
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