A congressional ethics committee is keeping open its review of Rep. Alan Grayson after investigators alleged that the Florida Democrat violated ethics rules by running a hedge fund and working as an attorney while in office.

The announcement Tuesday and the release of a damning report by the independent Office of Congressional Ethics complicates the Jewish congressman’s bid to win the Democratic nod to replace Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican who decided not to run in order to pursue the presidency. Rubio recently dropped out of the presidential race.


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