Report Details 485 Contacts between
Abramoff Team and
White House Officials
Thu Sep 28 2006 19:46:56 ET
ROLL CALL reports Tonight: Hundreds of contacts between top White House
officials and former lobbyist
Jack Abramoff and his associates ?raise
serious questions about the legality
and actions? of those officials,
according to a draft bipartisan report
prepared by the House
Government Reform Committee.
The 95-page report, which White House
officials reviewed Wednesday evening
but has yet to be formally
approved by the panel, singled out two of
President Bush?s top
lieutenants, Karl Rove and Ken Mehlman, as having been
offered
expensive meals and exclusive tickets to premier sporting events
and
concerts by Abramoff and his associates.
In total, the committee was
able to document 485 contacts between White
House officials and
Abramoff and his lobbying team at the firm Greenberg
Traurig from
January 2001 to March 2004, with 82 of those contacts occuring
in
Rove?s office, including 10 with Rove personally.
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