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Ethics group targets Landrieu earmark

Reading program donated to campaign

SOURCE: Bruce Alpert // New Orleans Times-Picayune

9 Jan 2008 // An ethics watchdog group Tuesday asked the Justice Department and Senate Ethics Committee to investigate whether Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., violated federal bribery laws in getting a $2 million earmark for a reading program whose executives and lobbyists donated to her 2002 re-election campaign.

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