While the cat's away, the mice break ethics rules?

Yesterday, in The Hill newspaper, a Washington, DC political publication, a story appeared regarding Dennis Moore’s Chief-of-Staff using his official email account to send out campaign related job postings.

This poses a couple of questions.

• What other activities are taking place in Moore’s office on the taxpayer’s dime?
• Why is Moore traveling all over the world, when it is apparent that his office needs additional oversight? (Here's the story.)
• What are the consequences that result from a misuse of taxpayer money?
  

You can read the whole article here.