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"Sen. Landrieu appears to have traded a $2 million earmark for $30,000 in campaign contributions."
Melanie Sloan, executive director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Ethics group targets Landrieu earmark
by The Times-Picayune, Washington bureau
Wednesday January 09, 2008, 8:05 AM
By Bruce Alpert
Staff writer
WASHINGTON -- An ethics watchdog group Tuesday asked the Justice Department and Senate Ethics Committee to investigate whether Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., violated federal bribery laws in getting a $2 million earmark for a reading program whose executives and lobbyists donated to her 2002 re-election campaign.
The money was earmarked for a Washington, D.C., public schools reading program operated by Voyager Expanded Learning, a Dallas company then headed by Randy Best.
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http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/ethics_group_targets_landrieu.html
Melanie Sloan, executive director, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
Ethics group targets Landrieu earmark
by The Times-Picayune, Washington bureau
Wednesday January 09, 2008, 8:05 AM
By Bruce Alpert
Staff writer
WASHINGTON -- An ethics watchdog group Tuesday asked the Justice Department and Senate Ethics Committee to investigate whether Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., violated federal bribery laws in getting a $2 million earmark for a reading program whose executives and lobbyists donated to her 2002 re-election campaign.
The money was earmarked for a Washington, D.C., public schools reading program operated by Voyager Expanded Learning, a Dallas company then headed by Randy Best.
READ MORE
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/ethics_group_targets_landrieu.html