Key Events in the Relationship Between Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBBYT7SKFE.html

Key events in the relationship between lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Republican congressional leader Tom DeLay when Abramoff's tribal clients sought help from the Interior Department:

-May 7, 2000: Abramoff lends the use of a Washington arena skybox, underwritten by his lobbying clients, so donors to one of DeLay's fundraising groups can be rewarded with a bird's-eye view of a concert by the Three Tenors opera singers.

-May 25-June 3, 2000: DeLay takes $70,000 golfing trip to Scotland and England arranged by Abramoff and partly funded by Abramoff's clients.

-Summer 2000: DeLay votes against gambling legislation opposed by some of Abramoff's Indian tribe clients. DeLay says he voted against the measure because of concerns it might lead to Internet gambling, not because Abramoff's clients opposed it.

-December 29, 2000: DeLay staffers Tony Rudy and Thomas Pyle exchange emails about helping Abramoff's tribal clients score a meeting with new Bush Interior Secretary Gale Norton. They point Abramoff to Norton's former political fundraiser, Italia Federici, and a group Norton and Federici formed called the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA).

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2. Kick...

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3. After watching the committee hearing on C-Span2....

day before yesterday, all I could think was why is this documented story of corruption at the very highest levels of government not front page news in every newspaper and msm network in this country.
The corruption of this admin is mind boggling, but even more mind boggling is the lack of coverage in the msm on this issue. I guess they think we're all too stupid to comprehend such topics and all we deserve is to be spoon fed more missing white women and butts getting glued to toilet seats at Home Depot.