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- (CNN) -- Sen. John Ensign of Nevada admitted Tuesday to an extramarital affair with a woman who had worked for him. Sen. John Ensign of Nevada is considered a rising star in the Republican Party. Ensign, 51, would not identify the woman but said she and her husband had been "close friends." Her husband, he said, also worked for him.
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The John Ensign scandal related to revelations in 2009 of an extramarital affair between United States Senator John Ensign from Nevada and campaign aide Cynthia Hampton from 2007 to 2008 and actions taken by Ensign to keep the affair secret.
Jul 22, 2019 · Former Sen. John Ensign, who resigned from the Senate in 2011 while facing the possibility of expulsion, has divorced his wife after more than three decades, bringing up memories of a sordid...
Jul 22, 2019 · Former Sen. John Ensign, whose political career began to unravel in 2009 after an affair with a top aide’s wife came to light, has divorced his wife of 31 years, Darlene.
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- Ensign and Cynthia Hampton used disposable phones and fake email accounts. The committee's report is "astounding and a hell of a read," says Taylor Marsh.
- Ensign was told to "put your pants on and go home" An "obvious highlight" of the report, says David Weigel at Slate, is an exchange between Ensign and his "spiritual adviser," Tim Coe.
- Doug Hampton chased Ensign around the airport. Ensign allegedly hounded Cynthia Hampton into starting the affair in November, 2007, after the Hamptons, whose own home was burglarized, moved in with the Ensigns.
- Ensign might go to jail. Despite many affair-related details, the ethics panel's two-year investigation focuses on Ensign's activities after he ended the affair and canned the Hamptons in 2008.
John Eric Ensign (born March 25, 1958) is an American veterinarian and former politician who served as a United States Senator from Nevada from 2001 until his resignation in 2011 amid a Senate Ethics Committee investigation into his attempts to hide an extramarital affair.
Dec 29, 2014 · The documents disclose for the first time how much John. E. Ensign strong-armed political donors to find lobbying work for the husband of a woman he had an affair with.
May 26, 2011 · (Reuters) - It was one of the most high-profile investigations of a senator in years: John Ensign of Nevada had conducted an affair with his campaign treasurer, Cynthia Hampton, the wife of...
