Lawyer: Criticism Of Bush May Have Led to Cuba Probe
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LOS ANGELES — Michael Moore’s lawyer said yesterday that the filmmaker’s criticism of the Bush administration may have prompted a federal investigation into his trip to Cuba for the upcoming health-care documentary, “Sicko.”
In a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, lawyer David Boies noted that Mr. Moore has been a critic of President Bush in his books and films, which include 2004’s “Fahrenheit 9/11.”
“For this reason, I am concerned that Mr. Moore has been selected for discriminatory treatment by your office,” Mr. Boies wrote in the letter.
