House ethics panel probing Reps. Ronny Jackson and Wesley Hunt over use of campaign money on private club dues

• A congressional watchdog found "substantial reason" to believe U.S. Reps. Ronny Jackson and Wesley Hunt used thousands of dollars of campaign funds for their own personal use.
• Texans for Ronny Jackson, spent nearly $12,000 on dues, fees, meals and other expenses related to the Amarillo Club, according to the independent Office of Congressional Ethics.
• Hunt's campaign committee paid more than $5,400 on dues and fees to the Oak Room in Houston, the OCE report alleged.
• Hunt's attorneys denied that any campaign money went toward personal use.

The House Ethics Committee on Monday said it will review a congressional watchdog report finding "substantial reason" to believe U.S. Reps. Ronny Jackson and Wesley Hunt used thousands of dollars of campaign funds for their own personal use.

Campaign committees for the two Republican congressmen, both of whom represent districts in Texas, made payments to private social clubs over multiple years, according to separate reports from the independent Office of Congressional Ethics.

Jackson's committee, Texans for Ronny Jackson, spent nearly $12,000 on dues, fees, meals and other expenses related to the Amarillo Club, a dining club, gym and meeting room in Amarillo, Texas, between 2020 and 2024, the office found.

Hunt's campaign committee paid more than $5,400 on dues and fees to the Oak Room, a private club located in Houston's Post Oak Hotel, in 2022 and 2023, according to the OCE.

In both reports, the office said it found "substantial reason to believe" that each congressman "converted campaign funds" from their campaign committees "to personal use," or or that their committees "expended funds that were not attributable to bona fide campaign or political purposes."

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