Democrats Seek Probe into Agency Spending

Democrats Seek Probe into Agency Spending
October 6th, 2005

Following up on last week’s conclusion by the GAO that “that the Education Department engaged in illegal “covert propaganda” by hiring Armstrong Williams to endorse the No Child Left Behind Act without requiring him to disclose he was paid,” Democratic senators (Kennedy, Lautenberg, Kerry and Dorgan) “pressed today for a criminal fraud investigation of the Bush administration’s” hiring of Williams.

In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Sens. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said questions of fraud remain for the department and for Williams.

The department paid Williams, a commentator with newspaper, television and radio audiences, to produce ads promoting Bush’s law. Work orders show he also was to provide media time to department officials and persuade other blacks in the media to discuss the law.

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I wonder how much monkey business there is that we DON"T know about?

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