Cases against Iraq IG, deputy, end without charges (cleared by the President's Council on Integrity)

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Source: Associated Press

Cases against Iraq IG, deputy, end without charges
By LARA JAKES JORDAN

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government has cleared the top U.S. watchdog of Iraq reconstruction projects and his deputy of fraud and abuse allegations lodged by former employees, officials said Wednesday.

On July 3, federal prosecutors alerted the office of Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart Bowen that a grand jury declined to indict him or deputy Ginger Cruz.

Last week, on July 9, the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency similarly cleared him and Cruz of any administrative charges stemming from the accusations. The executive branch council was created to investigate allegations of misconduct by inspectors general at federal agencies.

Both notices came in letters to Bowen's office, said SIGIR spokeswoman Kristine Belisle.

"I always had faith that we'd be cleared of the allegations," Cruz said in an interview Wednesday. "We knew there was no basis to them."

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