http://www.helenair.com/articles/2006/01/25/montana/a08012506_02.txtHELENA — Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., met with the sister-in-law of a Marianas man and client of confessed criminal Jack Abramoff in the weeks before Burns received a $5,000 donation from the man and reversed his position on a bill Abramoff opposed, a newspaper has reported.
Burns met with Rita H. Inos, commissioner of education for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory near Guam, in early April of 2001, according to the Saipan Tribune, a newspaper on the largest Marianas Islands.
The meeting was apparently part of a 15-minute meeting Burns had with Inos and then-Speaker of the House Benigno Fitial, on April 3, 2001.
Inos is the sister-in-law of Eloy Inos, an executive of the Tan Holdings Co., which owns garment manufacturing among other businesses and is the largest employer on the islands, according to a reporter for Pacific Magazine, a Hawaii publication that covers the Pacific region
Eloy Inos made a $5,000 campaign contribution to Burns on April 20, 2001. A little more than a month later, in May of 2001, Burns voted against a bill the Saipan Garment Manufacturers Association had hired Abramoff to kill.
Tan Holdings is a member of the association and Eloy Inos is a past officer, according to the association’s Web site.
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