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The DHS Inspector General&#8217;s Office has been investigating Lewandowski&#8217;s involvement in the handling of certain government contracts, according to one of the people, a DHS official.<br \/>A lawyer for Lewandowski, Adam Trigg, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The investigation was first reported in the Wall Street Journal, which quoted Lewandowski&#8217;s lawyer as saying that his client denies all allegations of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Lewandowski, a former political adviser to President Donald Trump and top aide at the Department of Homeland Security, is under criminal investigation over allegations he profited off his role in the US government, three US officials and a fourth person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.The probe began with a criminal referral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump ally Lewandowski faces criminal investigation over DHS tenure - 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