Darlene Ensign

WASHINGTON - The Senate Ethics Committee publicly admonished Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Friday for improperly meeting with a lobbyist and former aide to Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who resigned from the Senate after having an ...  

Congressman John Ensign admits affair with Cynthia Hampton (PIC/VID), his campaign treasurer. Nevada Senator John Ensign has confessed to an affair after his mistress' husband approached him about money, according to reports. Senator John Ensign, married ...  

WASHINGTON — An aide to former Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign is scheduled to attend a plea agreement hearing on June 7, indicating he has reached a deal with federal prosecutors who had charged him with lobbying the Senate before a one ...  

A former top aide to disgraced ex-Sen. John Ensign has reached a plea deal with the Justice Department, the latest chapter in a sex scandal that destroyed the political career of the one-time rising GOP star. Doug Hampton, whose wife had an ...  

John Ensign extramarital affair... Former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) had an extramarital affair with the wife of one of his staff. He then tried to pay the staffer to keep quiet about the affair. He resigned in April before the Senate Ethics Committee ...  

Chris Lee (caught searching for extramarital affairs on Craiglist); Anthony Weiner (sexting scandal); Charles Rangel (ethics censure); John Ensign (affair with staffer's wife, then bribed the staffer to keep quiet); Mark Foley (inappropriate behavior ...  

Alas, Gov. Sanford isn't the only "family values" philanderer. Slightly more than a week earlier, Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) admitted he had a nine-month extramarital affair with one of his campaign staff. Ensign, who was contemplating a run for president ...  

The Senate Ethics Committee publicly admonished Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) "for an aspect of his role in the scandal that led to the resignation last year of Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)," the Oklahoman reports.Coburn did not violate the law or Senate rules but the committee said a meeting with Ensign's former top aide was "improper conduct" that did not meet the "higher standards expected of a U.S. senator."  

He noted former Sen. John Ensign, a Nevada Republican who Lowell also represented, got his wealthy parents to pay a secret "severance package" to a female staff member with whom he had an extramarital affair. Ensign wasn't charged, while Edwards was.  

John Ensign vs. Elizabeth HalsethWEBCommentaryIn my estimation, Halseth is worse than John Ensign. After all, Ensign tried to help out his victims to some extent. Halseth, on the other hand, has a real bad Jezebel spirit inside of her and she victimized her husband for a second time.  

This November, Nevadans will be electing a new U.S. Senator to replace former Senator John Ensign (R-NV) who resigned last May just as the US Senate Ethics committee planned to announce hearings on Ensign’s ethical behavior. Soon after Ensign’s ...  

A starship captain, a commanding officer and an ensign walk into a bar on an away mission. Guess which one dies? Author John Scalzi has been having some fun with one of science fiction's longstanding traditions, and the result is his new novel Redshirts, which will be released June 5. While Redshirts draws from many inspirations, one naturally stands out from the rest.  

11. John Ensign During the years he represented Nevada in the U.S. Senate (and before that, the House of Representatives), Republican John Ensign was held in high regard by the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family and other Christian Right theocrats.  

WASHINGTON — The Senate Ethics Committee publicly admonished Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., on Friday for improperly meeting with a lobbyist and former aide to Sen. John Ensign, the Nevada Republican who resigned from the Senate after having an ...  

Steve Largent (R) and that he previously interned for former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) during a summer in college. Beyond their Congressional connections, Largent and Ensign knew Coburn well through their involvement with a Christian organization known as the Fellowship.