NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Futile Hunt for News Leak Costs $224,000
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Justice Deapartment said that it spent $224,000 on an unsuccessful five-month investigation to identify the source of a news leak of a preliminary criminal investigation involving alleged financial irregularities in the congressional office of Rep. William H. Gray III (D-Pa). Agents took sworn statement an FBI employees, and 10 were asked to take polygraph tests, the department said.
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