ETHICS COMMITTEE APPOINTS COUNSEL FOR FLOOD CASE

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 2004
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• Publication Date: June 2, 1978
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Ethics Committee
Appoints Counsel
For Flood Case
United Press International
The House Committee on Standards
of ? Official Conduct yesterday ap-
pointed an outside special counsel to
study reports of wrongdoing by Rep.
Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.).
Committee Chairman John J. Flynt
Jr., (D-Ga.), in a statement, insisted
.that the move was not an investiga-
tion but a study to determine whether
there was reason to believe that viola-
tions of law or codes of conduct had
taken place. If such a determination
is made, he said, an investigation
could begin.
Flynt refused to name the congress-
man involved, but sources close to the
committee said it was Flood.
"Since our function is quasi-judicial,
I do not believe it would be proper
for me or any other member to com-
ment on the study until its comple-
tion," Flynt said.
Flood could not be reached for com-
ment.
Flood is being investigated by the
Justice Department in connection with
his role in the funding of a $65 million
construction p r o j e c t-Hahnemann
Hospital in Philadelphia.
The special counsel named by Flynt,
subject to final approval by the House
Administration Committee, is Elliott
Goldstein, a partner in the firm of
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer and Murphy,
with offices in Washington and At-
Goldstein will be assisted by two
other lawyers with the firm-Mark
Eaton and Daryll Love-and James
Coleman, staff counsel of the commit-
tee.
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