Posted on 11/30/2005 7:27:58 AM PST by ncountylee
-- New evidence is emerging that the top Democrat on the Senate committee investigating Jack Abramoff got political money arranged by the lobbyist in 2002, shortly after the lawmaker took action favorable to Abramoff's tribal clients.
A lawyer for the Louisiana Coushatta Indians said Abramoff instructed the tribe to send $5,000 to Senator Byron Dorgan's political group just three weeks after the North Dakota Democrat urged fellow senators to fund a tribal school program for Abramoff's clients.
The check was one of about five dozen the Coushattas listed in a tribal ledger as being issued on March 6, 2002, to various lawmakers' campaigns and political causes at the instruction of Abramoff, tribal lawyer Jimmy Faircloth said.
Many of the recipients were lawmakers who had just written letters to the Bush administration or Congress supportive of Abramoff's tribal causes, documents show.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
---let's see the Republidums shout it to the rooftops--
The Democrats' culture of corruption... Not surprising, but what's really amazing is that Dorgan is so cheap. It took only $5,000 to buy his vote.
I think that Duke was the only honest criminal in congress.
Well, well, well.
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