Exclusive: FBI probed Harvey Milk, George Moscone prior to their murders

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Source: Raw Story

Exclusive: FBI probed Harvey Milk, George Moscone prior to their murders

By Kathleen Miller
Friday, May 21st, 2010 -- 12:26 pm

Federal agents were investigating the late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and the late mayor of San Francisco George Moscone for alleged political corruption when both men were murdered in November 1978, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation files.

The man convicted of killing both men, then-Supervisor Dan White, was also the subject of a separate FBI political corruption probe before he gunned down Moscone and Milk at San Francisco's City Hall.

Agents in the FBI's San Francisco bureau were looking into whether Moscone and Milk had collaborated to "defraud the federally sponsored San Francisco Community Development Fund," according to documents obtained by San Francisco blogger and gay rights activist Michael Petrelis. (The relevant pages from those documents can be seen here.)

FBI officials were also investigating whether Moscone had received $10,000 "for favorable treatment in the building of a controversial McDonald's restaurant," according to the files.

White was being investigated for allegedly securing favorable treatment for an unnamed party in exchange for a deal involving San Francisco's Pier 39, a popular tourist venue where White leased space to operate a fast-food restaurant.

Read more: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0521/fbi-probed-sfs-harvey-milk-george-moscone-prior-murders/

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1. Fingerprints of Feinstein on this one

Seriously, this is the sort of thing she would do to her opposition.