NBC News interviewed several people who were on the trip, and their
accounts vary.
One participant, who requested anonymity, said he was uncomfortable
with the attention Kolbe paid to one of the former pages.
He was "creeped out by it," he said, adding that there was a lot of
"fawning, petting and touching" on the teenager's arms, shoulders and
back by Kolbe.
From NBC News, 10/13/06:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15249733/
Feds probe trip that Kolbe made with pages
NBC exclusive: Congressman alleged to have been inappropriate in '96
By Jim Popkin, Aram Roston and the NBC News Investigative Unit
WA****NGTON -
Federal prosecutors in Arizona have opened a preliminary investigation
of a camping trip Congressman Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., took 10 years ago
that included two teenage congressional pages, a Justice Department
spokesman told NBC News. NBC News first re****ted on the camping and
rafting trip on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Justice Department in Wa****ngton said that the
U.S. attorney in Arizona has started a "preliminary *****sment" of the
trip, after an unidentified source made allegations about the
congressman's behavior on the expedition.
"The U.S. attorney is looking into allegations about the congressman
taking a trip with the two pages," the spokesman said.
As NBC News first re****ted, Kolbe took a tour down the Grand Canyon in
July 1996 with a group that included two 17-year-old males who had
recently left the congressional page program.
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