D.C. Council opens own probe into donations to Caribbean

Published April 9, 2009 4:00am ET



Two D.C. Council members have opened a formal investigation into the city’s donation of rescue vehicles to a Caribbean beach town.


Mary Cheh, D-Ward 3, and Phil Mendelson, D-at large, gave themselves subpoena power to open a joint investigation into the aborted gift of a used firetruck and ambulance to the Dominican Republic resort town of Sosua.

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