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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (674857)3/12/2005 3:42:28 AM
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Gambling Interests Funded DeLay Trip - Paper

March 12, 2005
By REUTERS
Filed at 0:48 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Indian tribe and a gambling services company made donations to a Washington-based public policy group to cover most of a $70,000 trip to Britain in mid-2000 by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the Washington Post Reported in its Saturday edition.

That week-long trip took place two months before DeLay helped kill legislation opposed by the tribe and the company, the paper wrote in the article posted on its Web site.

According to the paper, the Texas Republican lawmaker's financial disclosure documents listed the nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research as the sponsor for that trip. However, a person involved in arranging the trip said a lobbyist suggested the trip and then arranged for $25,000 checks to be sent by two of his clients.

Dates on the checks from those clients, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and eLottery Inc, coincided with the day DeLay left on the trip, according to grants documents the Washington Post said it reviewed.

Both The Choctaw and eLottery said they were unaware the money was being used to finance the lawmaker's travels, the paper wrote....

nytimes.com
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