An explanation given by Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) for activating a fire alarm in a congressional office building in September when there was not an emergency did not add up, investigators said in a newly released report.
The House “stood adjourned” when Bowman triggered the alarm despite a statement from the congressman that claimed he did so while “rushing to make a vote” on a stopgap measure to avert a government shutdown, the independent Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) found in an investigation into the matter.
Bowman, a former middle school principal and member of the leftist “Squad,” was actually “enroute to an emergency Caucus (Democrat) meeting — not to cast an imminent vote,” according to the report, which cited obtained messages on Signal that showed the congressman’s chief of staff having an exchange with him about how there would be a meeting in the…
