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Shawn Vasell bought White House officals $12,118 in drinks and meals.

Some info on Vasell here:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Shawn_Vasell

Profiles

Conrad Burns hired Greenberg Traurig lobbyist Shawn Vasell "as his State Director in 2001. After a year-long stint with Burns, Vasell returned to Greenberg Traurig in January 2003. Vasell was listed as a lobbyist for the Saginaw Michigan Tribe in 2003," according to (http://www.montanademocrats.org/news/pressroom/Burns%20Ad%20Response1.25.06.pdf) Roll Call March 1, 2005, and the December 18, 2003, Washington Post.

Vasell was a member of "Team Abramoff", the "more than a dozen lobbyists who were members of ... the tight-knit group who worked under" Jack Abramoff "when he was at the lobbying helm of the Washington office of Greenberg Traurig LLP and, before that, Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP," James V. Grimaldi wrote (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/25/AR2005062500983_pf.html) in the June 26, 2005, Washington Post.

Vasell was of Preston Gates and a former staffer for both Porter Goss (R-Florida) and judiciary subcommittee chair Senator Spencer Abraham (R-Michigan), Ken Silverstein wrote (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1998/01/silverstein_chart.html) in the January/February 1998 issue of Mother Jones...