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| News Date | Tuesday, March 1, 2005 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Josephine Hearn
An interagency criminal task force investigating former lobbyist Jack Abramoff has subpoenaed a Republican group founded by Interior Secretary Gale Norton and now run by her former aides, sources with knowledge of the investigation say.
The subpoena was issued to the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA), a nonprofit group created in 1997 by Norton and Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, and long denounced by environmental organizations as a front group for industry interests.
The government’s scrutiny of CREA is the latest example of the widening investigations into Abramoff, his associate Michael Scanlon and their dealings with Indian tribes.
The interagency task force is composed of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the public-integrity section of the Justice Department and the Interior Department’s Inspector General’s Office, an independent unit within the department. The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is also conducting an investigation of Abramoff and Scanlon.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Justice would not comment for this story. |
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