Moore in hot water over Cuba visit
Film-maker Michael Moore has stirred up controversy again after he allegedly entered Cuba illegally.
The US government has launched a probe into whether he broke laws when he went to Cuba to film a new movie about US health care.
American citizens face "civil and/or criminal penalties" for unauthorised travel to the communist country, the US Treasury Department warned in a letter to the Oscar-winning director.
He has apparently been given 20 days to provide more details of his visit including details about travel dates, people on the trip and reasons Moore might qualify for a journalist's licence.
His spokeswoman said that he took around ten ailing New York rescue workers with him for medical treatment.
Mr Moore made the trip to Cuba to film part of his new film Sicko, which is an examination of America's health care industry
Restrictions on Americans travelling to Cuba are an extension of the 1962 US embargo against the communist country.
Violating the rules can result in a prison sentence of up to ten years or a $250,000 (£126,000) fine.
Sicko is due to open at the Cannes Film Festival next week.
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