FBI Seeks Interview With Condit Wife
W A S H I N G T O N, June 28 -- As the FBI seeks to interview the wife of Rep. Gary Condit about missing intern Chandra Levy, ABCNEWS has been provided an exclusive look at what the congressman claims to have been doing in the days surrounding the disappearance.
With few new leads turning up in Washington, the search for clues appears to be picking up on the West Coast.
The FBI, which is handling aspects of the investigation beyond the nation's capital, have interviewed California friends and neighbors of Levy in recent days. They also are planning to talk to Carolyn Condit, the wife of Democratic Rep. Gary Condit.
The congressman, who has been the subject of intense public speculation since Levy's disappearance on April 30, has released prepared statements calling her a "good friend." Levy's parents suspect their 24-year-old daughter may have been having an affair with the 53-year-old congressman.
His aides have denied the two were dating. Condit steadfastly refuses to comment publicly about the former Federal Bureau of Prisons intern, who hails from his Northern California district.
Police Deny Condit Told Them of Breakup
Condit did tell police that his wife, who lives in Ceres, Calif., had visited Washington and stayed at his apartment during the final week before Levy's disappearance. The FBI now wants to ask Mrs. Condit whether she saw or talked to Levy while in town.
Though several newspapers and a cable network are reporting that Condit told police he ended a "close friendship" with Levy in the days before she vanished, and that she was in a distraught emotional state, high-level police sources have denied those reports.
"We don't know where they got that," one source said, echoing denials from Condit's staff and from another well-placed police source. "We don't know where they got that and it's not true!"
In fact, sources tell ABCNEWS, Condit shed no new light on his relationship with Levy last weekend in his second interview with police. In the first interview, police said, Condit had strongly suggested there was no relationship with Levy.
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