Probe Finds $10 Million In Payments To Lobbyist

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34542-2004Mar29.html

Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff received $10 million in previously undisclosed payments from a public relations executive whom he recommended for work with wealthy Indian tribes that operate casinos, congressional investigators have determined.

Abramoff, one of Washington's best-connected Republican lobbyists, this month was forced out of his firm, Greenberg Traurig, after revelations that he and the executive -- Michael S. Scanlon, a former spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) -- had persuaded four newly wealthy tribes to pay them fees of more than $45 million over the past three years. That amount rivals spending on public policy by some of the nation's biggest corporate interests.

In a letter sent to Abramoff late yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said investigators on his staff "have recently learned that Michael Scanlon or organizations with which he was in some way associated . . . recently paid you approximately $10 million."

[blm]

1. Heheh....McCain's revenge.

Go get 'em, John. Some of us get what you're trying to do.

[cosmicdot]

3. 'Some of us get what you're trying to do'

what is he trying to do?

[cosmicdot]

2. he's lobbied for Channel One which is controversial in classrooms

and, so much more

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Jack+Abramoff

Students locked up after refusing to watch Channel One
When Ohio teenagers DJ and Carlotta Maurer walked out of their classrooms in October to protest the compulsory viewing of Channel One, a television program with commercials which is shown in schools across America, school officials realized they had a couple of dangerous radicals on their hands. Principal Patrick Calvin invoked the truancy provision of the school's code of student conduct, and 13-year-old DJ and 14-year-old Carlotta were whisked away to the Wood County Juvenile Detention Center, where they had all day to consider their crime.


From the Mar/Apr 2001 issue of Adbusters magazine.
http://adbusters.org/magazine/34/jail.html

About Channel One and Their Advertising

The Channel One Diet



May 24, 2001

Dear Representative:

This is a dirty letter. I do not apologize. The person who should apologize is Jack Abramoff of Greenberg and Traurig, the Washington lobbyist for the controversial in-school marketing company called Channel One. I am just telling you what his client is doing to our children.

http://www.obligation.org/letterabramoff.html

[dennis4868]

4. I know Jack

Abramoff and he is an asshole....big time. And his restaurant SUCKS also!

[yellowcanine]

5. Any chance some of that 10 million went to a DeLay PAC or his "charity"?

Nah - nothing to see here folks, keep moving.

[Moderator]

6. Please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=452588