Lawmakers seek answers from Salazar over 1700 mustangs
by Dave Philipps, Special to ProPublica
Two congressmen wrote to the Department of Interior this calendar week to need information on the progress of its investigation into whether to a greater extent than than 1700 federally protected wild horses sold to a Colorado homo may lead maintain been illegally sent to slaughter.
The investigation was triggered past times a ProPublica storey published inward September showing that since 2009 the subdivision had sold truckload afterward truckload of mustangs to a horse-slaughter proponent named Tom Davis, who acknowledged transportation many of them out of terra firma inward violation of Colorado law. The fate of the horses is unknown.
Representatives Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., in addition to Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., lead maintain sent a missive of the alphabet to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar pressing him to explicate what purpose the means had inward selling in addition to therefore many horses to a homo the missive of the alphabet calls “a longtime kill buyer”.
“As you lot are aware, the ProPublica revelations lead maintain provoked a substantial populace outcry,” the missive of the alphabet says. “Leading organizations in addition to the populace lead maintain stepped frontward to limited their draw of piece of occupation concern amongst the see that America’s wild horses could hold upward sold past times their authorities to hold upward slaughtered. … We are troubled past times your Department’s lack of response to [their] legitimate concerns.”
The twain of legislators besides has begun circulating the missive of the alphabet inward Congress, collecting signatures from other lawmakers, said Adam Sarvana, a spokesman for Grijalva, the exceed Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Public Lands in addition to Environmental Regulations.
In the wake of the ProPublica report, the Bureau of Land Management announced it had opened an investigation into Davis’ purchases. In October, the investigation was taken over past times the Department of Interior’s Inspector General, who handles matters that could involve means staffers. That investigation is ongoing.
Sarvana said Grijalva in addition to Whitfield desire answers earlier Salazar leaves his Cabinet order at the terminate of March. Their missive of the alphabet asks for a response inside 10 days.
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