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From: bentway	5/6/2005 9:49:39 PM
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Guess who else had close contact with Abramoff? Posted By Carpetbagger On 6th May 2005 @ 11:27 Jack Abramoff’s connections to Tom DeLay have been well-documented and will soon be the center of a major Ethics Committee investigation. But, as it turns out, Abramoff also enjoyed sweeping influence with another even more powerful Republican. In President Bush’s first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show. The meetings between Abramoff’s lobbying team and the administration ranged from Attorney General John Ashcroft to policy advisers in Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, according to his lobbying firm billing records. Abramoff, a $100,000-plus fundraiser for Bush, is now under criminal investigation for some of his lobbying work. His firm boasted its lobbying team helped revise a section of the Republican Party’s 2000 platform to make it favorable to its island client. In addition, two of Abramoff’s lobbying colleagues on the Marianas won political appointments inside federal agencies. It turns out Abramoff’s access to the Bush team knew practically no bounds, even to the man at the very top. In [1997], Abramoff charged the Marianas for getting then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush to write a letter expressing support for the Pacific territory’s school choice proposal, his billing records show. “I hope you will keep my office informed on the progress of this initiative,” Bush wrote in a July 18, 1997, letter praising the islands’ school plan and copying in an Abramoff deputy. And the circle of controversy widens…. Article printed from The Carpetbagger Report: thecarpetbaggerreport.com URL to article: thecarpetbaggerreport.com

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