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Launched 18 months ago by U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens, the probe initially focused on what looked like a bizarre money-laundering scheme involving the House post office, which has been rocked by charges of drug use, mismanagement and embezzlement by employees. Last September, after pleading guilty to embezzlement and misuse...
Called to testify before a federal grand jury in July, Rostenkowski refused, citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. Instead, he invited investigators to his office to talk "informally" about the House post office; prosecutor Stephens turned down the offer. Murphy and Kolter also refused to testify.
U.S. Attorney Stephens, who was criticized for setting up the 1990 sting operation that led to former Washington Mayor Marion Barry's drug conviction, last week described the probe simply as "an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations relating to operations of the House post office and efforts to obstruct that...
Rostenkowski's office denies the allegations, and has reacted indignantly. "Why doesn't Stephens look into typewriter ribbons or pencils, instead of stamps?" demanded spokesman Jim Jaffe last week. "Maybe he'd find some criminality there too." As for the chairman, he waves off the federal probe as a "fishing...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser, Robert B. Stevens (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consultant); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam (Assistant Editors); Cristina T. Scalet, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty...