Schwarzenegger Was Advised to Allow Probe [View All]

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AP News

November 6, 2003
Schwarzenegger Was Advised to Allow Probe
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 3:43 p.m. ET

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California's attorney general said Thursday that he warned Arnold Schwarzenegger that the groping allegations against him are ``not going to go away'' and that the governor-elect should cooperate with an investigation.

Bill Lockyer said he spoke with Schwarzenegger as recently as Wednesday about the allegations leveled against the action star during the closing days the campaign.

The allegations will not go away ``until he is willing to have some form of independent, third-party review of those complaints to see if there's any criminal liability or not,'' Lockyer said.

The attorney general said he had no plans to open an investigation of his own because that is generally the jurisdiction of local district attorneys.
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