Posted on 06/06/2007 5:51:02 PM PDT by RDTF
WASHINGTON — Justice Department investigators have absolved former Arizona Rep. Jim Kolbe of wrongdoing in his relationships with House pages, Kolbe says.
In a statement Wednesday, Kolbe and his Washington lawyers said they received notice Tuesday that investigators had completed their work on the preliminary inquiry opened by federal prosecutors last fall, and saw no reason to pursue it further.
Prosecutors began looking into Kolbe's relationships with House pages after hearing reports that he took a Fourth of July camping trip to the Grand Canyon with two former pages and others in 1996.
The inquiry was launched amid a separate investigation into sexually explicit messages sent to high school-aged congressional pages by former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., who resigned over the issue last fall.
"Yesterday's action by the Justice Department is powerful evidence that the allegations of wrongdoing were unfounded," said Kolbe, a Republican. "I am thankful for the department's objective review of this matter and glad to have finally put this issue to rest."
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How about Barney Frank? Or does the Justice Department only investigate Republicans?
That means no criminality? How about the ethics involved?
Why are former pages an issue?
This and the Mark Foley episode got much more press than Gerry Studds did, and Studds actually did sleep with at least one minor, unlike Foley and Kolbe.
But Studds was a Democrat, so the Press didn’t care.
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