WASHINGTON -- Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation into a camping trip that an Arizona lawmaker took with two former pages and others in 1996, according to a law enforcement official.
Representative Jim Kolbe, Republican of Arizona, took the former pages as well as staff members and National Park Service officials on a Fourth of July rafting trip in the Grand Canyon in 1996, his spokeswoman Korenna Cline said yesterday.
An allegation related to the trip was given to the US attorney's office in Phoenix, but it was not immediately clear whether it was related to any contention of improper activity by Kolbe.
The official described the inquiry as preliminary and far narrower in scope than the federal investigation into former Representative Mark Foley, a Florida Republican who resigned two weeks ago amid reports about sexually explicit e-mails he sent to pages.
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