World Bank Chief to Argue Ethics Panel Knew of Girlfriend's Pay

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WASHINGTON -- Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz plans to argue that the institution's ethics committee knew of his involvement in securing a promotion and pay raise for his girlfriend.

Wolfowitz, an architect of the Iraq war in his preceding Pentagon job, will cite a Feb. 28, 2006, letter that his attorney characterizes as showing that bank's ethics committee had looked at the arrangement.

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World Bank Chief to Argue Ethics Panel Knew of Girlfriend's Pay

The panel's chairman, Ad Melkert, said in the "Dear Paul" letter that an allegation relating to "a matter which had been previously considered by the committee did not contain new infor...

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