WASHINGTON - Karl B. Rodney, the chief executive officer of the Carib News Foundation and publisher of Carib News, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to making a false statement to the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. According to court documents, through the Carib News foundation and Carib News, Rodney has organized an annual conference for more than a decade in the Caribbean called the Annual Caribbean Multi-National Business Conference. Many of the conferences have been attended by members of Congress. In 2007, the House of Representatives modified its travel rules to require, among other things, that all privately-funded travel by members of Congress be pre-approved by the House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (Ethics Committee.) The pre-approval process required the private sponsor to submit a Private Sponsor Travel Certification ...