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Ex-White House Aide Charged in Corruption Case
The New York Times ^ | September 20, 2005 | PHILIP SHENON and ANNE E. KORNBLUT

Posted on 09/19/2005 8:10:52 PM PDT by 4mor3

September 20, 2005 Ex-White House Aide Charged in Corruption Case By PHILIP SHENON and ANNE E. KORNBLUT WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 - A senior White House budget official who resigned abruptly last week was arrested Monday on charges of lying to investigators and obstructing a federal inquiry involving Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist who has been under scrutiny by the Justice Department for more than a year.

The arrest of the official, David H. Safavian, head of procurement policy at the Office of Management and Budget, was the first to result from the wide-ranging corruption investigation of Mr. Abramoff, once among the most powerful and best-paid lobbyists in Washington and a close friend of Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: abramoff; anneekornblut; annekornblut; bushhassers; corruption; delay; getbush; guiltbyassociation; kornblut; mediabias; philipshenon; philshenon; propaganda; republican; safavian; shenon; witchhunt; zogbyism
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To: 4mor3

More info on Abramoff.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Abramoff#Greenberg_Traurig_Biography


21 posted on 09/20/2005 4:16:26 AM PDT by enots
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To: msnimje

If an agency does not fall under the legislature or judiciary then it's in the executive branch of gov't. The entire Dept of Defense could be part of the White House Staff. That's what is misleading.


22 posted on 09/20/2005 4:22:23 AM PDT by Alissa
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To: 4mor3
Mr. Abramoff, once among the most powerful and best-paid lobbyists in Washington and a close friend of Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader.

So, of all the people Abramoff could be linked to, the Times figured it was MOST important to link him to DeLay.

Yet more evidence of the one-way thinking of the Times' staff.

23 posted on 09/20/2005 5:02:35 AM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: laredo44

Who is bigger than delay?


24 posted on 09/20/2005 8:14:00 PM PDT by notigar
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To: notigar
Who is bigger than delay?

Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy...the list goes on. The thing is that, had Abramoff been directly linked to Hillary, on her staff, top adviser, whatever, the Times would have linked him to W by some six degrees of separation algorithm before linking him to Clinton. Their thinking only goes one way: attack Republicans.

25 posted on 09/21/2005 4:02:46 AM PDT by laredo44 (Liberty is not the problem)
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To: laredo44

Did any of them go on the golf trip to scotland?


26 posted on 09/22/2005 6:33:38 PM PDT by notigar
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To: drjimmy

Wasn't Safavian an associate of Grover Norquist's? Members of the same lobbyist firm?


27 posted on 09/22/2005 7:09:17 PM PDT by Pelham
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