Nevada Republican Scandals | Updated List of GOP Scandals in NV

Had a yearlong extramarital affair with his co-chief of staff who also happened to be the wife of his close friend and got caught when his friend saw a text message Ensign sent to his wife

Had his parents pay his close friend and his friend's wife who he had an affair with $96,000 to keep them both quiet and used his influence to get his friend a corporate lobbying job, all of which resulted in him eventually resigning from the senate

Name-dropped himself to a police officer who pulled him over for illegally turning right on red and weaseled his way out of a ticket

Stole over $70,000 worth of donations she raised for the statue of a Las Vegas police officer shot and killed in the line of duty and spent it on personal items including plastic surgery and her daughter's wedding

Had his longtime friend murder his ex-wife and her father at their home out of a bitter custody dispute over their young son in which she planned to move out of the state away from him but unfortunately was too late

Illegally killed a black bear inside a closed area with the help of an unlicensed guide and had the audacity to post with its carcass afterwards

Used taxpayer money to pay for gas in his personal vehicle by inputting fake odometer readings into a government-owned fuel pump while he worked as a juvenile probation officer