The sport-utility vehicle was heavily damaged by fire in the garage of the couple's Capitol Hill home. The cause of her death is uncertain. She was found dead shortly before 5 a.m. in a burning BMW, the back end of which was partly out of the garage, as if the vehicle had been entering or leaving when the fire started, authorities said. Authorities said her death appears to have resulted from a low-speed crash, an unknown medical condition, the fire, or some combination of the three. Neighbors called for help about 4:50 a.m. after they saw flames spewing from the garage at the rear of the house. He said firefighters found a burning vehicle facing into the garage with a dead body in it. A source familiar with the incident, speaking on the condition of anonymity because it is still under investigation, said the SUV was "about seven-eighths of the way" into the garage and was stopped "at a weird angle." He said the vehicle was heavily damaged by fire, but said he could not discuss the condition of the body.
The deceased was the wife of Daniel A. Turton, 43, the White House's deputy director of legislative affairs for the U.S. House. As such, he is President Obama's point man on legislation moving through the House.
She was a lobbyist for North Carolina-based Progress Energy, which announced a merger Monday with Duke Energy.
A lobbyist for an energy company being acquired by Duke Energy, one of the worst of the Big Oil crowd, is married to someone in charge of pushing legislation through Congress for Obama. Aren't there conflict of interest laws? Who's to say that he's not pushing Duke's favored bills more than others?
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