NBC News Lisa Meyers is reporting this afternoon that the Kolbe trip with congressional pages is now being probed by the FBI and the Justice Dept.:
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Feds probe trip that Kolbe made with pages
NBC exclusive: Congressman alleged to have been inappropriate on '96
By Jim Popkin, Aram Roston and the NBC News Investigative Unit
Updated: 1:55 p.m. ET Oct 13, 2006
WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years ago that included two teenage congressional pages, a Justice Department spokesman told NBC News. NBC News first reported on the camping and rafting trip on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington said that the U.S. attorney in Arizona has started a "preliminary assessment" of the trip, after an unidentified source made allegations about the congressman's behavior on the expedition.
"The U.S. attorney is looking into allegations about the congressman taking a trip with the two pages," the spokesman said.
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