They said Wu had behaved strangely at meetings and had e-mailed pictures
The latest allegations against Wu surfaced last month when the Portland peacock feather hair extensions Oregonian newspaper reported the daughter of a high school friend who contributed to Wu’s campaign accused him of making an unwanted sexual advance around Thanksgiving of last year.
Details of the nature of the alleged encounter have not been disclosed. Wu has not denied the accusation but has acknowledged more than once the allegation was “serious.”
Wu, the first Chinese-American elected to Congress, promised last month to step down, but said at the time he wanted to wait until after the crisis over the U.S. debt ceiling was resolved.
Wu had said in February that he was undergoing psychiatric treatment after his staff complained about his erratic behavior in the run up to the November 2010 Congressional elections.
They said Wu had behaved strangely at meetings and had e-mailed pictures of himself wearing a tiger suit to staff. Several key staff members resigned following the election.
Wu, who represents the Portland area, is in his seventh two-year term in the House. Two Democrats have already announced they will seek Wu’s seat in the 2012 congressional election.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said an investigation “determined that there is a link between the Cargill ground turkey products and the illness outbreak.” The recalled products have the number P-963 inside the USDA inspection mark.
“This is, if not the largest, one of the largest class-one food recalls to happen in U.S. history,” said cheap feather hair extensions William D. Marler, a Seattle attorney who specializes in food safety litigation. A class-one recall involves a health hazard that has a reasonable probability of causing health problems or death.
Over the last six months, local and state health department authorities in 26 states have reported dozens of cases of people falling ill after eating ground turkey. Salmonella Heidelberg is resistant to many commonly prescribed antibiotics and is often difficult to treat.
On Tuesday, California health officials confirmed that one person in Sacramento County died, apparently in connection with eating contaminated meat. County health officials declined to provide any details about the victim or the circumstances.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had reported that 22 people nationwide had been hospitalized, with victims ranging in age from younger than 1 to 88.
Salmonella can cause fever, diarrhea and abdominal pain. It can be fatal to young children, older people and those with compromised immune systems.
Cargill Value Added Meats Retail, a unit of Wichita, Kan.-based Cargill Meat Solutions, posted a brief statement on the company website, including an Internet link to a list of recalled products at http://www.cargill.com/turkey-recall/.
Cargill said it launched the recall as a result of an internal investigation and ongoing inquiries by the CDC and the USDA into multiple illnesses from Salmonella Heidelberg.
Cargill owns four turkey-processing facilities in the U.S., and no products from the other three are involved in the recall, the company said.
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