A bipartisan ethics committee of the US Congress is to probe Queens, New York Representative, Gregory Meeks over a ‘loan’ he received from Guyanese businessman, Edul Ahmad.
Meeks is already under investigation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) over the loan and Ahmad himself was arrested in New York two weeks ago by the FBI over a mortgage fraud probe.
New York Daily Post reported today that the probe is focusing on possible criminal charges for Meeks’ failure to report a US$40,000 payment from the businessman in 2007 that investigators say appears to have been an illegal gift. Meeks had claimed it was a loan and had only paid it back after it was exposed.
The report said that the bipartisan Ethics Committee
