Bush environmental lawyer shares $1 mil vacation home with oil lobbyist

[ProSense]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Prosecutor-Lobbyist.html">Lobbyist, Fed Lawyer Share Vacation Home

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 14, 2007

Filed at 4:28 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nine months before agreeing to let ConocoPhillips delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup, the government's top environmental prosecutor bought a $1 million vacation home with the company's top lobbyist.

Also in on the Kiawah Island, S.C., house deal was former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, the highest-ranking Bush administration official targeted for criminal prosecution in the Jack Abramoff corruption probe.

Just before resigning last month, Assistant Attorney General Sue Ellen Wooldridge signed two proposed consent decrees with shared investment : one giving the company as much as two to three more years to install $525 million in pollution controls at nine refineries and the other dealing with a Superfund toxic waste cleanup.

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The deed is filed under Duncan's name, but the mailing address for the South Carolina property -- tucked among pines, palmettos, a pool, golf course and racket club several hundred yards from the beach -- is Griles' home in Virginia. He and Wooldridge jointly own a condo there.

Griles, now an oil and gas lobbyist, began dating Wooldridge while he was her boss at Interior. He was the department's No. 2 official from July 2001 to January 2005, behind only former Secretary Gale Norton. He and Duncan, a ConocoPhillips vice president who runs the company's Washington office, both served on President Bush's presidential transition team, Griles for the Interior Department, Duncan for the Energy Department.

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[Just-plain-Kathy]

1. Kick & recommend..to keep it out there....n/t

[orleans]

2. we always knew the bush administration was in bed with the oil industry

and here's the proof!

[sutz12]

3. K & R Keep the light shining on them cockroaches....

Apologies to small disgusting insects.

[ourvoicescount]

4. K&R I guess they have to do SOMETHING with all of those record profits...

[SpiralHawk]

5. Why do republicons hate America?

Why are there so many corrupt republicons?

What is wrong with them?

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. I'm so tired of this kind of story. It's so old, it's so grey, and so predictable

where it all ends. What happened to integrity?

[POAS]

7. Integrity?

Your so old fashioned!

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