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House payroll records show that Rep. Gary Condit (D-Calif.) significantly increased the salaries of three key staffers in the days following the revelation that he was romantically involved with Chandra Levy, a young Washington intern who went missing last year and recently was found dead in Rock Creek Park.A Roll Call analysis of Condit’s payroll records, as disclosed in the quarterly Statement of Disbursements of the House, revealed that the embattled Congressman gave significant pay raises to two top aides — Administrative Assistant Mike Dayton and Chief of Staff Michael Lynch — as the Levy investigation heated up.The Congressman also...

Items from the latest Enquirer story (rolling out in newsstand/supermarkets over the weekend) I found to be new information: The running tights were at the base of the tree, perhaps indicating Levy had been tied to it and tortured. The bracelet Condit gave her was not at the scene. Her keys were not at the scene, perhaps lending credibility to the theory that someone scrubbed her apartment. (Recall no Condit memntos were found in her apt.) The source for the above items is a retired California sheriff (who they named) said to be "close to the investigation." Grand jurors in...