The fallout from the Abramoff scandal continues. According to the Legal Times, Italia Federici is now a target in the probe of corruption related to Jack Abramoff. According to the report, Federici's former boyfriend is Stephen Griles. He was the number two official in the Bush Administration's Department of the Interior who pled guilty to to obstruction of justice in an Abramoff-related crime just last month:

Italia Federici, the one-time girlfriend of a convicted former senior official at the Interior Department, is a target of the ongoing federal influence-peddling investigation into the activities of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to court documents obtained by Legal Times.

In a letter dated Jan. 19, the Justice Department informed Federici, founder of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, that she was a target of the federal probe.

“The investigation is focused on the allegedly illegal manner in which you operated the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy,” wrote Stephanie Evans, a trial attorney in the department’s Tax Division.

Federici co-founded CREA, a conservative-leaning environmental-advocacy group, in 1997 with Gale Norton, who became secretary of the Interior Department in 2001.