U.S. GUV NIKKI HALEY CLEARED OF WRONGDOING

Washington, June 30: South Carolina’s IndianAmerican Governor Nikki Haley has been cleared of any wrongdoing by an ethics committee which probed allegations that she lobbied on behalf of her employers when she was a legislator, a ruling that handed her a major political victory.

“We turned over every stone that we could to find evidence that would make a different decision. It’s over. It’s been dismissed,” said State lawmaker J. Roland Smith, chairman of the House Ethics Committee which conducted the investigation. Ms Haley called her accuser, Republican fundraiser John Rainey, “a racist, sexist bigot”. — PTI