Lawmakers ask GAO to Look into Palestinian Fund
From JTA on 5/9/2012 at 3:26 PM
Categories: Middle East, Politics
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

