Senate ethics panel clears Reid

Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did not break Senate rules in accepting free ringside seats at boxing matches from the Nevada Athletic Commission, the ethics committee has concluded.

The committee disclosed the determination in a letter to Las Vegas resident Robert Rose, who had filed a complaint on the matter. “There is not substantial credible evidence which provides substantial cause for the committee to conclude that a violation within the jurisdiction of the committee has occurred,” the committee’s chief counsel, Robert L. Walker, wrote to Rose.