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No, he was. There was an article about the people the justice department was focusing on in the Abramoff investigation: Ney (R-OH), Sen. Reid (D-NV), Sen. Dorgan (D-ND), Sen. Burns (R-MT) and Hayworth (R-AZ) (I may have these names wrong, it's from memory, but the parties are right.). Well, it turns out that the only filter they seemed to have used was that they took the 5 people who received the most Abramoff client money.

The last list I saw had those 5 on top. It doesn't necessarily mean any of them did anything the least unethical, although Ney seems to be in trouble and given Reid's past associations with gambling commissions in his state and the legal troubles he was in once before, it looks circumstantially bad for him, too. With the remaining three, as I said, the other two Senators had lots of tribes in their own states so they would naturally support those kinds of causes anyway.

Arizona Carolyn said, though, that plenty of Congressmen took money from out of state interests related to Abramoff. It still doesn't mean anything, but that takes away some exculpatory evidence.