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FBI Probes GOP Nevada Governor For Corruption

FBI Probes GOP Nevada Governor For Corruption
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Gibbons, a Republican who left the House last year after being elected governor of Nevada, is denying any wrongdoing in the FBI-led probe into his role in awarding contracts to eTreppid Technologies. Before becoming governor, Gibbons served five years in Congress where he was on the House Intelligence and Armed Services committees.

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Gibbons asked the House ethics committee in November for an opinion about whether he improperly reported private jet flights and a Caribbean cruise paid for by businessman Warren Trepp, owner of eTreppid Technologies LLC, and a longtime friend of Jim Gibbons.

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