Lobbyist Paid by Pakistan Led U.S. Delegation There..(Abramoff/Delay)

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More dirt comes out about Abramoff...The gift that keeps on giving, and more DeLay connections:

Lobbyist Paid by Pakistan Led U.S. Delegation There

By PHILIP SHENON and ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: May 8, 2005

WASHINGTON, May 7 - Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist at the center of a federal corruption investigation, led a Congressional delegation to Pakistan in 1997 but failed to tell the group's sponsor or the lawmakers that he was a registered lobbyist for the Pakistani government, according to the sponsor and the two House members on the trip.

"I wish I'd known that he had a bias that way," said Representative Michael R. McNulty, Democrat of New York, who was on the trip. Gregg Hilton, whose nonprofit organization, the National Security Caucus Foundation, sponsored the trip for Mr. McNulty and Representative Howard Coble, said he felt "deceived" by Mr. Abramoff.
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The trip to Pakistan and Mr. Abramoff's role in it came to light with the release of documents this week showing that he had also used his personal credit card to pay more than $350,000 in travel expenses for other Congressional trips, some of them sponsored by the National Security Caucus Foundation, which is now defunct.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/politics/08abramoff.html