Report: Ensign leaves Christian town home

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., has moved out of a C Street house, a town home on Capitol Hill shared with other Christian lawmakers, sources say.

Unnamed sources told Sunday's Las Vegas Sun that Ensign, whose affair with the wife of a staff member has made him the subject of a preliminary Senate Ethics Committee investigation and the target of a possible criminal inquiry by the Justice Department, moved out of the house several weeks ago.

The newspaper said Ensign was not pushed out of the C Street house by his colleagues but left voluntarily. The senator would not comment to the newspaper about the living situation.

The C Street house became the topic of political intrigue last summer when it was revealed as the scene of confrontation between Ensign and Cynthia Hampton's husband, Doug, who was one of the Nevada Republican's top aides at the time.

The newspaper said the town home has been described as run by a Christian group that grooms lawmakers as spiritually chosen leaders, whose members often gather there for spiritual fellowship.