GOP Rep. Steve Buyer to Resign Amid Ethics Probe

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Source: FOXNews

Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., will not seek re-election this fall amid an ethics probe focusing on a non-profit foundation he founded in order to fund academic scholarships.

First elected in 1992, Buyer is a veteran of the Gulf War and rose to become the top Republican on the House Veterans Affairs Committee.

Questions were first raised in August about the way he ran the Frontier Foundation, which operated out of his campaign offices in Monticello, Ind. Buyer later made structural changes to the organization and moved it out of his campaign shop, where his son Ryan served as its director.

The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a complaint against Buyer, alleging he "violated ethics rules by abusing a charity for private purposes and by trading legislative assistance for donations to the charity and a job for his son."

The Office of Congressional Ethics and the IRS are also scrutinizing Buyer's foundation for not actually raising academic assistance money, as it never actually awarded any scholarships.



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