INDIANAPOLIS (AP): The Indiana House Ethics Committee is set to review a senior lawmaker who worked in private to block legislation that would have cost his family's company millions of dollars in profits.
Republican House Speaker Pro Tem Eric Turner fought a nursing home construction ban in the final days of the 2014 session. The Associated Press reported last week that Turner's ownership stake in Mainstreet Property Group means he earns upward of $1 million on each new home that it builds.
Turner has said he did nothing wrong and argues the ban wouldn't have caused him financial harm.
The ethics panel is scheduled to meet this afternoon at the Statehouse. House ethics rules place limits on official actions, but Turner's actions came during private meetings of House Republicans.