More Trouble re: Armstrong Williams - Justice Dept.

[Tennessee Gal]

Investigators at the Education Department have contacted the U.S. attorney's office regarding the Bush administration's hiring of commentator Armstrong Williams to promote its agenda.


The action was disclosed by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who has pressed for a criminal fraud investigation focused on questions about whether Williams actually performed the work cited in his monthly reports to the Education Department.


Last month, congressional auditors concluded that the Education Department had engaged in illegal "covert propaganda" by hiring Williams to promote the No Child Left Behind Act without requiring him to disclose that he was being paid.


In an Oct. 6 letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Lautenberg and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said questions of fraud remained. Lautenberg also asked the Education Department's Office of Inspector General to more fully investigate the contract. The inspector general's office told Lautenberg in a letter released Friday that it was working with the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Columbia.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/10/14/national/w085702D00.DTL

edit: changed headline

[Catherine Vincent]

1. He sure has been quiet lately.

[napi21]

2. Yep, head this on MSM several times today.

Wonder how many others will surface out of this investigation? We all know Armstrong wasn't the only one who was PAID to push the WH points!