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Ex-Admin Official Given 10-Month Prison Term

HeadlineJun 27, 2007

President Bush’s former deputy secretary of the interior, Steven Griles, has been sentenced to 10 months in prison. Griles pleaded guilty earlier this year to lying about his relationship with Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Griles is the highest-ranking Bush administration official convicted in the Abramoff lobbying scandal. Abramoff’s clients paid more than $500,000 to a nonprofit environmental group run by Griles’ girlfriend, who was a former aide to then-Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton.

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