Smallpox Probe About Influence Says Chairman - CNBC
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee told CNBC that he wants to know whether political considerations drove the government’s decision to steer a potentially multi-billion dollar contract to a company in which financier Ron Perelman's investment firm has a significant stake.
"I am concerned about it," said Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) of the possibility that Perelman was involved in pushing for the contract. "We may never get to the bottom of it, but we’re going to keep asking the question."
In a brief interview Wednesday, Issa said he is investigating what he sees as a broader pattern in Washington in which Democrats have used federal machinery to reward supporters and allies. (Issa heads Congress' top investigative committee, which has been widely expected to lead a Republican effort to look for potential scandals within the Obama administration. Issa has promised an aggressive investigative agenda).
Issa said his concern about Perelman was one of the reasons his committee, along with the House Small Business Committee, sent a letter June 9th to the Department of Health and Human Services asking [...]
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