2 days ago · The Montana Senate on Monday voted unanimously to open an ethics investigation into the actions of Sen. Jason Ellsworth — with him in support — when he signed a $170,100 contract with a ...

2 days ago · The Montana Senate will conduct an ethics investigation into a $170,100 government contract brokered late last year by former Senate President Jason Ellsworth with his business associate. The Senate voted unanimously Monday to assemble a bipartisan Ethics Committee to investigate the agreement between Ellsworth and Bryce Eggleston, of Stevensville.

2 days ago · Sen. Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, listens to senators discuss convening an ethics committee to investigate his actions signing a secretive $170,100 contract with a former employee last year.

6 days ago · A former Montana Senate leader’s $170,100 government contract with a business acquaintance was a wasteful and abusive use of state funds, the Legislative Auditor concluded Friday.. Sen. Jason Ellsworth, a Hamilton Republican, entered into a government contract with Bryce Eggleston, a former employee of Ellsworth’s private business, that ignored state competitive bidding requirements for ...

Jason Ellsworth is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Montana Senate. First elected in 2019, Ellsworth serves as the President pro Tempore of the Montana Senate. [1] [2]

Jan 20, 2025 · Sen. Jason Ellsworth, a Hamilton Republican, led the state Senate in 2023. Credit: Samuel Wilson / Bozeman Daily Chronicle. When news of the contract broke last week, Ellsworth was already in a battle with Republican Senate leadership over committee assignments. Ellsworth and seven other members of a never-before-used Executive Branch Review ...

3 days ago · Sen. Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, listens to senators discuss convening an ethics committee to investigate his actions signing a secretive $170,100 contract with a former employee last year.

Jan 20, 2025 · On Monday morning, Sen. Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, dropped off signed termination documents at Legislative Services Division to dissolve a $170,100 no-bid contract he’d signed on the last day of 2024 to award state funds to a former business associate.

Jul 11, 2023 · Montana Senate President Jason Ellsworth said Tuesday his ex-fiancée’s domestic abuse claims in a request for a protection order granted May 2 were not true, and attorneys for both filed a stipulated agreement granted Tuesday by a justice of the peace to vacate the protection order.

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