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New York Times
Page Inquiry Ends,
Ex-Lawmaker Says
By AP from
nytimes.com on the web, June 7, 2007
WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Justice
Department investigators looking into former Representative Jim Kolbe’s
relationships with House pages found no wrongdoing and have closed their
inquiry, Mr. Kolbe says.
In a statement Wednesday, Mr. Kolbe, a Republican who represented a Tucson-area
district for 22 years before retiring last year, said he received notice Tuesday
that investigators had completed an inquiry opened last fall and saw no reason
to pursue it further. The United States attorney for Arizona, Daniel
Knauss, had no comment, said his spokesman, Wyn Hornbuckle.
Prosecutors began looking into Mr. Kolbe’s relationships with House pages after
hearing reports that he took a camping trip with two former pages and others in
1996.
The inquiry began amid a separate investigation into messages sent to
Congressional pages by former Representative Mark Foley, Republican of Florida.
Mr. Kolbe, 64, was the House’s only openly gay Republican.
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