SCANDAL WIDENS: FEDS PROBE GOP REP KOLBE'S CAMPING TRIP WITH PAGES....

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MSNBC Jim Popkin, Aram Roston October 13, 2006 05:51 PM

Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years ago that included two teenage congressional pages, a Justice Department spokesman told NBC News. NBC News first reported on the camping and rafting trip on Tuesday.

A spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington said that the U.S. attorney in Arizona has started a "preliminary assessment" of the trip, after an unidentified source made allegations about the congressman's behavior on the expedition.

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