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House Committee on Ethics

Thursday, February 12, 2026·1h 0m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Ethics Committee held its second meeting on the complaint against Rep. Ron Weinberg, working through evidence requests category by category during a preliminary investigation into whether probable cause exists that he violated ethical principles — no probable cause determination was reached, with the committee racing a February 20 drop-dead evidence deadline.

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·Investigation status and ground rulesAction

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we just had a member convicted, a former member convicted of a felony for filing a false document that literally just happened on the day that this committee was appointed.

Mr. Dececco (OLLS) · witnessOLLS's reference framed why Soper wanted attached statements verified — a recent felony conviction for a fabricated legislative document raised the stakes on authenticity.

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House Ethics Committee will come to order. Ms. Berger, please call the roll. Representatives Garcia, Sanders. Present. Mabry. Here. Woodrow. Here. Soper. Excused. Madam Chair. Here. All right. We are here to have our second meeting of the House Ethics Committee. And just as a review and last week we met, we went over the allegations and came up with a list of potential requested evidence that we wanted our OLLS staff to collect. And we also, during that week, I directed them to make sure that they were screening that incoming evidence or items to make sure that we were provided only the things that we requested and that we did not receive into our files, anything that we did not ask for, and to make sure that there was no extraneous testimony in there. So thank you for that. We appreciate you being there for that duty. We also talked about last week having a request posted on the committee's website to, as a general, ask to folks that we may not have thought of to also be able to give us some of those items that may be in their possession, written communication or otherwise. And we
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