Lewis holds fast to approps seat

[maddezmom]

Lewis holds fast to approps seat
By Susan Crabtree
April 26, 2007
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) is holding tightly onto his Appropriations panel seat even though two House GOP members resigned committee assignments in the last week after the Department of Justice escalated its investigations of them.

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The Department of Justice (DoJ) has spent more than a year looking into Lewis’s relationship with a lobbying firm and the millions of dollars in contracts its clients received from Congress. Lewis, the ranking member of the spending committee, has outlaid an estimated $900,000 on defense lawyers since the probe began, but the investigation has been quiet in recent months.


Lewis spokesman Jim Specht said Lewis’s home has not been searched and that the California Republican has had no “direct contact” with DoJ officials. Other than a subpoena issued late last year seeking documents related to the investigation of Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham (R-Calif.) that now is targeting former CIA official Dusty Foggo and businessman Brent Wilkes, Lewis has received no letters, calls or other contact from the DoJ, Specht said. He added that Lewis’s defense lawyers voluntarily have reached out to the DoJ.

Specht said he did not know why, with the case so quiet, Lewis has spent so much on attorney fees, referring the question to Lewis’s lawyers. Barbara Comstock, Lewis’s spokeswoman on the legal matter, did not return a call for comment.


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[robinlynne]

1. I believe the investigation is quiet because the lead attorney in the DOJ investigation, Debra Yang

was hired over to his side for 1.5 million dollars. That will quell any investigation, don't you think? Not sure who gonzales appointed in her place, but we know that he/she didn't have to be approved by the senate.... besides, after you buy the lead investigator, who has been investigating you for a year, I would guess you have access to all of the information the DOj has about you, even though Yang says, of course, that she would never provide that info, in spite of the 1.5 million.... Oh yes, and her dismissal had been discussed by the DOj. guess they didn't have to fire her becuase she was available for sale.