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Federal Investigation of Lewis Confirmed

Earlier this month, the LA Times broke the story that House Appropriations Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA) was under investigation by the FBI. The Times, and other papers that followed up on the story, cited anonymous law enforcement sources.

Well, now the AP has a San Bernadino county official on the record saying that the county has just received a subpoena from the FBI. The subpoena asks for records connected to Lewis and the lobbying firm of Bill Lowery, the former Congressman who is very, very close to Lewis. The county was a client of Lowery’s. The investigation is said to be focusing on Lewis’ ties to Lowery.

So there’s no longer any room for doubt: Lewis is under investigation.

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