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Lawmakers ask GAO to Look into Palestinian Fund

From JTA on 5/9/2012 at 3:26 PM

Categories: Middle East, Politics

Lawmakers ask GAO to Look into Palestinian Fund

Three lawmakers are asking the General Accountability Office to investigate the scope of US funding for the Palestine Investment Fund. Reps. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday asked the GAO's comptroller general to probe what US funding was being given to the PIF and under what circumstances. Deutsch and Israel had co-signed a similar letter drafted last November. The signing of Lowey, the senior Democrat on the Foreign Operations subcommittee of the US House of …More