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Foley's Wife Testifies in Post Office Case

Johnston, David

1992

Overview

Today, Mr. [Thomas S. Foley], a Democrat of Washington State, said that his wife \"voluntarily testified last week.\" Referring to his comments on Tuesday, Mr. Foley said, \"I said that there had been reports that the grand jury was looking into my wife's association with the post office, but it is also true, as I've said today, that she is not a target or subject of that.\" Mr. [Steven R. Ross] said in an interview Tuesday that he argued last summer that the Capitol police should play a secondary role in the inquiry, but he insisted that he did nothing improper. He said he told Mr. [Jay B. Stephens] that postal investigators would be better able than the Capitol police to conduct the inquiry. In an effort to demonstrate that he did not intend to quash the inquiry, Mr. Ross provided a letter Tuesday that he wrote on July 8, 1991, to D. C. Sparks Jr., the chief postal investigator in charge of the District of Columbia. The letter, summarizing a meeting held a week earlier with postal investigators, said that \"the conduct and direction of the inquiry will be under the control of the Postal Inspection Service.\"

• Publisher: New York Times Company
• Subject: AIDES AND EMPLOYEES / FOLEY, HEATHER (MRS THOMAS S FOLEY) / FOLEY, THOMAS S (SPEAKER) / Johnston, David / ROSS, STEVEN R / RUSS, JACK