As we reported earlier this morning, Laura Richardson’s battle with the House Ethics Committee has come to a $10,000 end—the amount that the committee has fined the representative for violations involving the unmitigated use of her official staff for campaign and personal needs.

Richardson has agreed to all seven charges—ranging from illegal uses of congressional resources to obstructing the committee’s investigation—and the full House must vote Thursday to approve the reprimand.

“Representative Richardson has agreed to a settlement of this House Ethics Committee matter. She has agreed to accept a reprimand by the adoption of the Committee report and has agreed to pay a fine,” her office stated in a statement that lacked any personal comment from Richardson. “Representative Richardson takes this matter with the utmost seriousness and takes full responsibility for her actions and those that were done by anyone else under her employ.”

The probe discovered that Richardson forced additional hours onto staffers after their official workday had ended. One staffer was even told to go volunteer for her opponent Janice Hahn’s campaign to gather information. House rules state that Congressional aides, paid for by taxpayer dollars, are not permitted to perform political or campaign work unless they are volunteering on their own volition and during their free time (this is why members of Congress who are running for further offices use campaign donations to pay their campaign staff).

“[Richardson] demonstrated a callous disregard for her staff and the resources entrusted to her by the American people,” the Ethics Committee’s report stated. “Her disrespect for boundaries between the official and the political realms, as well as the boundaries that define the Committee’s jurisdiction, deserves a public reprimand.”

The investigation into her behavior often reached dramatic heights of spectacle, most in part due to Richardson’s lack of cooperation with the probe, at one point the committee having to serve the representative a subpoena due to her refusal to hand over documents.

The bipartisan panel’s formal investigation—headed by Representatives Jo Bonner and Linda Sanchez—was acerbic in its analysis of Richardson’s behavior.

According to the panel, Richardson displayed “an utter absence of true remorse for her misuse of official resources and, equally as significant, for what she has put her staff through, as well as a near total deflection of responsibility for this matter. It is not this Committee, it is not other Members, it is not either political party, and most certainly, it is not her staff that is responsible for the situation Representative Richardson finds herself in.”

Further, the report paints Richardson as severely manipulative, stating she wove “an elaborate fabrication out of threads of decontextualized evidence and outright prevarication, in an absurd attempt to rebut the majority of the tremendous evidence against her.”

Richardson is not the first politician to be reprimanded (which is largely considered a slap on the wrist, considering the House also has the option to censure or expel lawmakers), though the reprimand deals a severe blow to her re-election campaign.

The last reprimanded House member was then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997. The most recent case of expulsion was in 2002, when then-Representative James Traficant of Ohio was expelled while the most recent case of censure involved New York Representative Charles Rangel, who was censured in 2010 for tax paying violations and other mishaps.

Richardson is up for re-election in a newly-redistricted district, which includes a smaller portion of Long Beach, against another local incumbent, Democratic Representative Janice Hahn.