The House Ethics Committee says it will decide whether to pursue an investigation into U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings by Jan. 11, though the panel cautioned in a press release that its extension of the time frame for deciding whether to investigate doesn’t indicate anything about what it may eventually decide.
A former staffer of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Winsome Packer, claims she was the victim of “unwelcome sexual advances” by Hastings, a Democrat from Palm Beach County, according to press reports.
Hastings was the chairman of the commission. The conservative group Judicial Watch has helped Packer in a lawsuit against Hastings.
