The California Senator is a Reb -elected president of the Insurance Committee, despite research issues on corruption

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The leader of the California Senate again appointed the former president of the Chamber Insurance Committee, despite uncertainty about her possible participation in a federal corruption investigation.

On Friday, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate Mike McGuare announced that he would name Democrats Senator Susan Rubio de West Covina to chair the committee after the position was free for three weeks.

“The Senator Rubio heads the 2019 Insurance Committee and I trust her experience and her ability to lead the Commission while the state is facing unprecedented challenges with the insurance market,” McGuar says in an email, citing Los Angeles Fires.

The chairman of the Insurance Committee was the only one McGuar left free when he announced his tasks in the committee on January 3. McGuare told Calmatters that “waiting for additional information from the United States Prosecutor’s Office before completing any solution.”

McGaare said on Friday in a statement: “The Senate has been charged with ethical and criminal behavior with great seriousness, so I ordered the Senate’s legal advisor to seek answers about whether there is any violation that includes a Senate member. What is known: The Prosecutor’s Office of the United States has not filed any cases and there is no additional information from the Prosecutor’s Office of the United States. “

A spokesman for the United States Prosecutor’s Office in Los Angeles did not comment and send Calmatters in Political guidelines for the Ministry of Justice Which details when federal prosecutors can discuss public investigations.

“The Ministry of Justice will generally not confirm the existence of ongoing investigations or comments on them,” the statement said. “The staff of the Ministry of Justice will not answer questions about the existence of an ongoing investigation or comment on their nature or progress before the accusations are publicly submitted.”

Federal employees have not identified Rubio by name in the corruption investigation that caught a handful to other officials in San Bernardino County, Compton, Trade and Park BaldwinS

However, no one else matches the description of “man 20” who according to Recently published federal court documents, He asked for $ 240,000 bribes for a cannabis company and accepted $ 30,000 illegal campaign contributions. The charges arise when Rubio was a member of the Baldwin Park Municipal Council.

Rubio categorically denied bribes in an interview with the Calmatters Report partner, CBS News, which was aired on Wednesday by noch S But when they asked him if he denied being “Man 20”, he replied, “I’m not saying that.”

“I just say they read the report,” he continued. “And whatever happens there, it happens there, but I think (researchers) will have to communicate with me so that I am part of all this.”

Rubio’s office He told Los Angeles Times earlier In a statement that she “offers hours of her time” to help authorities in her investigation and that “there is no reason to believe that it will be included in any criminal charge.”

This article was originally published by CalmattersS