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There have been investigations into what are considered "ethics" violations but these are done by other members...Congress can and is held accountable only to itself. The nebulous laws (many written by these same "legislators"
have plenty of loopholes where what appears to be a conflict of interest is "legal". The whole banking game is to make things so blurry and piled over in legalese that trying to find any wrong doing is difficult and tedious. And now with the rushpublicans in control of the "ethics" committee you'll see men on Mars before they'll agree to any real investigation and/or reform.
In short...people get away with it because they can. And when one person sees another doing it, the corruption spreads fast...
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