Ashcroft Defends Contract for His Firm

By Dan Eggen

Washington Post Staff Writer 

Former attorney general John D. Ashcroft defended a government-sanctioned contract yesterday that could earn his consulting firm more than $50 million, saying that nothing is improper about the selection made by one of his former U.S. attorneys.

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