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Tuesday, September 9, 2003

"Sale of the Wild," Michael Shnayerson's excellent piece in Vanity Fair, focuses on another of these coyotes -- J. Steven Griles, the deputy interior secretary, who is a former lobbyist for the coal, oil and gas industries.

Actually, the phrase "former lobbyist" may not be quite correct. When Griles took the Interior job, he sold his lobbying firm to a business associate for $1.1 million -- to be paid in four annual payments of $284,000. In other words, Shnayerson writes, Griles "is receiving a major outside income from his former business colleague, who continues to represent Griles's former clients" in the coal, oil and gas industries."

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