The House Ethics Committee interviewed a number of Rep. Alma Adams’ former aides as part of an investigation into an alleged inappropriate relationship between the lawmaker and a staffer who works out of her North Carolina district office, NOTUS has learned.
Over the course of several months in 2023, committee staff interviewed roughly half a dozen former aides — some of whom were working for Adams at the time — in Washington and Charlotte, North Carolina, about Adams’ relationship with her now-deputy chief of staff and district director, Sandra Brown, according to four people interviewed by the committee who were granted anonymity to speak freely about the sensitive matter.
The interviews started as early as January 2023 and continued until at least September 2023. Adams, now 79, was made aware of the ethics complaint filed against her in the summer of 2022, according to the people NOTUS spoke with.