Money talks

[Bart]

When the scandalous dealings of crooked Jack Abramoff began to surface, White House officials were saying, "Jack who?'" Yeah, he may have met with us a couple of times, but nobody remembers who he is."


[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/washington/29abramoff.html ?_r=1&hp&ex=1159588800&en=48a1a693318d9fe3&e i=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin [/url]


WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 â€â€￾ A bipartisan Congressional report documents hundreds of contacts between White House officials and the corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his partners, including at least 10 direct contacts between Mr. Abramoff and Karl Rove, the president's chief political strategist.


The House Government Reform Committee report, based on e-mail messages and other records subpoenaed from Mr. Abramoff's lobbying firm, found 485 contacts between Mr. Abramoff's lobbying team and White House officials from 2001 to 2004, including 82 with Mr. Rove's office.


The lobbyists spent almost $25,000 in meals and drinks for the White House officials and provided them with tickets to numerous sporting events and concerts, according to the report, scheduled for release Friday.http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/a/jack_abramoff/index.html?inline=nyt-per

 

[Kaptain]

The corruption in our government is beyond belief and yet much of it goes unreported. How ironic is it that the religious right organizations who have generally supported the neocon agenda are more than connected with this organized criminal - Jack Abramoff. Abramoff was once the director of the religious right group called "Towards Tradition". He also has ties with Ralph Reed and other christian religious right-wingers. The funny thing is that Jack Abramoff is an othodox jew. Big surprise.