An alleged illegal quid pro quo between former Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and an Arizona developer is being referred for investigation to the Justice Department by the House Natural Resources Committee’s Democratic majority.
The criminal referral involves a 2017 US Fish and Wildlife Service decision to drop longstanding objections to the Army Corps of Engineers issuing a Clean Water Act permit to developer Michael Ingram’s proposed 28,000-unit housing development along the San Pedro River near Benson, Ariz.
A committee investigation found evidence that Ingram and other donors gave $241,000 to the Trump Victory Fund and the Republican National Committee in ...
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