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House Committee on Ethics

Monday, May 11, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Ethics Committee unanimously found probable cause that Rep. Mandy Lindsay may have breached her fiduciary duty and been negligent in managing the caucus fund — but expressly not at a criminal level — clearing the way for a possible evidentiary hearing while repeatedly stressing the problem ran deeper than any one member.

Key Actions

·Ethics complaint against Rep. Mandy LindsayPassed

Notable Quotes

the fund appears to have been used for its intended purpose and not for purposes of nefarious or ill intent. I do see clear evidence of poor practice of record keeping and accounting of the fund possibly going back years involving more than one person.

Committee ChairThe Chair's framing set the ceiling on the finding — mismanagement, not malfeasance — and signaled the committee would not treat this as criminal.

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TranscriptPreview
The House Committee on Ethics will come to order. Ms. Berger, please call the roll. Representative Garcia. Sander. Present. Mabry. Here. Woodrow. Representative Woodrow. Excused. I know he'll. He'll be there. Soper. Here. Madam Chair. Here. All right. Thank you all. And I want to especially start this meeting by thanking all the folks that have responded to our multiple requests for documents pertaining to this issue. I want to especially thank our OLS and LCS staff members. Director Tacheco, Ms. Chase, Ms. Love, Ms. Ross, Ms. Berman, Sperger. You all have put in a tremendous amount of work on top of all your other work on this. And at this time in session, I just really appreciate all that you've done. After hours and during hours, we have received hundreds of pieces of documentary evidence. And I think I speak for all of us on the committee and saying that we've received much more than we expected. We've met regularly over the past month reviewing and discussing the allegations in the complaint from Rep. Marshall. And I know that each of us on the committee has spent hours on our own digging into all that we've received. We've carefully
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