"The Highest Levels?"
ABC News' Brian Ross reported tonight that
the Jack Abramoff bribery scandal "has led FBI investigators to some of the most powerful members of Congress," namely Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL).
Ross reported that "based on information" obtained by investigators, Hastert is "very much in the mix of the corruption investigation."
Ross and co. say the investigation centers on a letter Hastert wrote to interior sec. Gale Norton blocking a casino on an Indian reservation that would benefit tribes repped by Abramoff. The letter was written after a Signature's fundraiser.
(This bit of info is old news, but if investigators are focusing on it, then many other members who wrote similar letters could be in trouble.)
The report quoted a Hastert spokesman as saying Hastert was not aware he was being scrutinized and had not been asked by DoJ to turn over any information.
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