Letter from Attorney General clearing Representative Les AuCoin in House Bank investigation

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Letter from Malcolm Wilkey, Special Counsel to the Attorney General, clearing Representative Les AuCoin of any criminal violations regarding the House Bank. In 1991 a government audit of the bank, where House members could deposit paychecks, showed hundreds of members with overdrafts on their accounts. Further investigation eventually revealed that, while a few members intentionally abused the bank, many of these overdrafts were caused by the bank’s delay in processing deposits. In this letter from September 18th, 1992, the US Department of Justice cleared AuCoin of any wrongdoing with the bank. The House Bank was a major issue in the 1992 election, and AuCoin's involvement was frequently attacked by political opponents.This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. See also PUA_MS147_137 for a statement by AuCoin addressing the House Bank audit.