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How it's Going:

"Rep. Madison Cawthorn faces a House Ethics investigation" (May 23, 2022)

Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, which will determine whether the freshman lawmaker violated rules by promoting a cryptocurrency while having a personal financial interest invested and engaged "in an improper relationship" with a member of his staff.

The move comes less than a week after Cawthorn was defeated in the North Carolina Republican primary following weeks of scandals that resulted in backlash from Capitol Hill Republicans. ...

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/23/1100827985/madison-cawthorn-house-ethics-investigation-crypto

How it started:

"Who is Madison Cawthorn?" (June 24, 2020)

... Cawthorn campaigned as "pro-Trump, pro-life and pro-Second Amendment" and emphasized his family's deep roots in the state, which he said goes back to the Revolutionary War.

"I'm a millennial. I represent an emerging generation of Americans who are tomorrow's leaders, most of whom think that Republicans don't care about the disenfranchised, the hurting and those less fortunate. But nothing could be farther from the truth," Cawthorn said in a campaign video. ...

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/24/882750969/24-year-old-easily-tops-president-trumps-pick-in-n-c-republican-primary

Digging through NPR's archives for the first substantive coverage of Cawthorn.

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