Another New York Congressman is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee. According to the New York Post, the House Ethics Committee is investigating Rep. Gregory Meeks for failing to report his one of his wife's sources of income.

The lapses in the Queens Democrat's annual financial filings include his failure to reveal at least one of his wife's sources of income -- a teaching job at Queens College, The Post has learned.

Simone-Marie Meeks earned $2,857 in 2008 as an adjunct at the school, state records show.

Meeks' wife is also the principal of the Lipscomb Lord Group, which she set up in 1999 to do public relations, event planning and advocacy work. Meeks never disclosed the existence of the company.

CREW requested that the Office of Congressional Ethics investigate whether a private loan Meeks received may have violated House rules. Members are allowed to accept private loans under certain conditions.

Meeks disclosed the $40,000 personal loan from businessman Ed Ahmad in his 2009 financial disclosure report. The Congressman reported the loan with a value of $50,000 to $100,000 on his disclosure form and revealed in an amendment that he first received the “interest-only personal loan” in 2007. He had not previously reported the funds, which he noted in another amendment to his financial disclosures in 2010 that he has repaid in full.

Last week, another former associate of Jack Abramoff's pled guilty to charges of trying to corrupt a public office. Todd Boulanger, a former staffer in the office former Sen. Bob Smith, worked in Abramoff's lobbying team from 1999 to 2004. (He also hilariously appears in this Daily Show clip as a CNN talking head.) Boulanger's guilty plea provides information on more unnamed congressional staffers coming into investigation. These staffers are now known as "Staffer D," a Transporation and Infrastructure Committee staffer; "Staffer E," a top aide with Sen. Thad Cochran; "Staffer F," an unknown legislative director.

"Staffer E" has been identified as Ann Copland, a former aide to Sen. Cochran now working (Copland is apparently no longer working at MPB, see the comment below) at Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Copland appears in the court documents as receiving a stream of tickets to events (NSYNC, Paul McCartney, Green Day, ice skating, and more) in exchange for using her official position to do the bidding of Abramoff and his lobbying team. She appears in the guilty pleas of both Boulanger and Kevin Ring, another lobbyist indicted in the scandal.

Below is an updated list of all the figures in the Abramoff scandal who have either pleaded guilty, been convicted, indicted, named in court documents, or had their career brought to an abrupt end by being mentioned in the scandal.

After coming under fire last year for receiving "V.I.P." rate mortgages from Countrywide Financial on his two homes, Sen. Chris Dodd released a much-anticipated report reviewing the terms of the 2003 mortgages. The report aims to dispell notions that Dodd received preferential treatment from Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo, who ran a V.I.P mortgage program for important political figures.

The two documents released today include a professional review of the terms of the mortgage by the independent company CrossCheck Compliance LLC and a summary highlighting information showing that the rates Dodd received were no different than the commonly offered rates at the time. The key finding in these documents is that mortgage companies were offering rates at or better than the rates that Dodd received for similarly qualified mortgage candidates.

Which begs the question: Was Angelo Mozilo trying to scam political movers and shakers into thinking they were getting special treatment? Or is there more than meets the eye here.

The documents released by the senator are attached below.

Dodd Final Report

Dodd Document Summary