The Nation - News from Jan. 8, 1986

The Justice Department is investigating whether a top federal housing official billed the government for trips on which he was paid substantial outside speaking fees, an official close to the investigation said in Washington. Allegations of improper conduct by Gordon Walker, a deputy undersecretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, are under investigation by the agency’s inspector general, at the request of Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr., a spokesman said. Justice Department spokesman John Russell said the matter had also been turned over to the department’s public integrity section for possible prosecution.