Mollohan, A Rep

<h2>Conservative watch dog</h2>

NLPC describes itself as a "conservative watch dog organization". Targets have included Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Charles Rangel and other liberal politicians. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Legal_and_Policy_Center#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a> In February of 2009, NLPC focused on a rented Dominican villa which Rangel failed to disclose on his taxes, a sponsored trip to St. Martin and a "potentially illegal homestead" tax break. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Legal_and_Policy_Center#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a>, According to Sen. Rangel:

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<dd>"This is helpful because there was no questions in anybody’s minds why I had been the target of so [many] allegations. I have not wanted to use the word conspiracy — I guess it’s because I am chairman of the Ways and Means Committee that this group would want to do this."</dd>

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In 2006 NPLC fueled rumors concerning the personal finances of Rep. Alan Mollohan, a democrat from West Virginia. Subsequent to an FBI investigation, he was never charged with any wrong doing. However, stories that he had benefited financially from steering money to a non-profit group, prompted his resignation from the Ethics Committee. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Legal_and_Policy_Center#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a>