NEW: Longtime Democrat Rep. Investigated For Relationship With Staffer

A previously undisclosed House Ethics Committee investigation into Rep. Alma Adams included months of interviews with her former aides over allegations tied to her relationship with a senior staffer, according to people familiar with the probe. Committee investigators questioned roughly half a dozen former aides in Washington and North Carolina throughout 2023, focusing on Adams’ relationship with her now-deputy chief of staff and district director, Sandra Brown, multiple sources told NOTUS. The interviews began as early as January 2023 and continued through at least September. Adams, 79, had been made aware of the ethics complaint in the summer of 2022, according to those sources. The exact nature of the relationship remains unclear. But the complaint was filed by a high-ranking staffer a