Edgar A. Johnson, a former Interior Department official, pleaded guilty on Friday to accepting $15,000 in kickbacks.
Johnson worked in Interior's Office of Insular Affairs. He is the second person from that office to plead guilty to a crime.
Interior Secretary Ken
Salazar has vowed to clean up the department, whose reputation has been tainted by the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
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