Lobbyist, fed lawyer share vacation home

Nine months before agreeing to let ConocoPhillips delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup, the Bushevik's top environmental prosecutor bought a $1 million vacation home with the company's top lobbyist.--BUZZFLASH

By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
Wed Feb 14, 2:43 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Nine months before agreeing to let ConocoPhillips delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup, the government's top environmental prosecutor bought a $1 million vacation home with the company's top lobbyist.

Also in on the Kiawah Island, S.C., house deal was former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, the highest-ranking Bush administration official targeted for criminal prosecution in the Jack Abramoff corruption probe.