AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - Rep. Summer Lee faces ethics complaint over staffer's use of Instagram account to promote progressive candidates
A Pittsburgh constituent has filed a formal ethics complaint against Rep. Summer Lee's office, alleging her director of operations used a popular Instagram account and House resources to campaign for progressive candidates and amplify a post calling for federal agents to carry out extrajudicial killings. Jeremy Kazzaz, a Pittsburgh resident and Lee constituent, filed the […] The post Rep. Summer Lee faces ethics complaint over staffer's use of Instagram account to promote progressive candidates appeared first on American Almanac .
A Pittsburgh constituent has filed a formal ethics complaint against Rep. Summer Lee's office, alleging her director of operations used a popular Instagram account and House resources to campaign for progressive candidates and amplify a post calling for federal agents to carry out extrajudicial killings. Jeremy Kazzaz, a Pittsburgh resident and Lee constituent, filed the complaint with the House Ethics Committee on July 22, 2026, targeting both Lee, a Pennsylvania Democrat aligned with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's progressive faction, and her staffer Philip Bennett. Bennett serves as Lee's director of operations and controls the "Dear White Staffers" Instagram account, which has close to half a million followers. The account began as…Open