Michael Moore faces U.S. Treasury probe

[CMF Newsman]

LOS ANGELES - Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing Sept. 11 rescue workers to Cuba for a segment in his upcoming health-care documentary "Sicko," The Associated Press has learned.

The investigation provides another contentious lead-in for a provocative film by Moore, a fierce critic of President Bush. In the past, Moore's adversaries have fanned publicity that helped the filmmaker create a new brand of opinionated blockbuster documentary.

"Sicko" promises to take the health-care industry to task the way Moore confronted America's passion for guns in "Bowling for Columbine" and skewered Bush over his handling of Sept. 11 in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control notified Moore in a letter dated May 2 that it was conducting a civil investigation for possible violations of the U.S. trade embargo restricting travel to Cuba. A copy of the letter was obtained Tuesday by the AP.

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Michael "Goebbels" Moore at it again.

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Michael Moore and probe just seem to go together.

[stray]

I hope that fat piece of shit aspirates his own vomit and dies.

[plasticone]

Ah - Moore got the Treasury Deoartment to act just in time to build up publicity for the films release. A $75,000 fine? - peanuts when you can get $25,000,000 worth of free publicity out of it. Obviously it worked, I'm sitting here wasting my time making mention of it. So I think I'll stop.

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