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House Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Chairman Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) (R) and Dave McCurdy, president and CEO of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, tour the Washington Auto Show in Washington on February 3, 2009. (UPI Photo/Alexis C. Glenn) 
Published: July 31, 2009 at 7:21 PM

WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- A U.S. House committee will investigate the forgery of a letter to a member of Congress purporting to be from an advocacy group, the committee chairman said.

Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass. -- chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming -- said Friday his panel would look into a letter sent by an employee of the Bonner & Associates political consulting firm to Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va.

The letter, which was written on letterhead of a Charlottesville, Va., Latino organization Creciendo Juntos urged Perriello to make changes in greenhouse gas legislation, The Washington Post reported.

Bonner Associates founder Jack Bonner told the Post in an e-mail the company has fired a temporary employee after discovering the employee wrote the forged letter "contrary to our policies."

A spokeswoman for Perriello told the newspaper his office received five letters employing similar language purporting to be from the NAACP Charlottesville, Va., branch -- but none of the names signed on the letters matched actual members of the branch.

Topics: Edward Markey
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