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Secret Service logs show just two Abramoff White House visits

Posted 5/10/2006 5:04 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secret Service records made public Wednesday show just two White House visits in the past five years by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. He stayed a total of 63 minutes, 29 seconds.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-abramoff-whitehouse_x.htm?csp=34

Posted 5/6/2005 8:35 AM Updated 5/7/2005 8:19 AM

Controversial lobbyist had close contact with Bush team

WASHINGTON (AP) — In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show.

The meetings between Abramoff's lobbying team and the administration ranged from Attorney General John Ashcroft to policy advisers in Vice President Dick Cheney's office, according to his lobbying firm billing records.

Abramoff, a $100,000-plus fundraiser for Bush, is now under criminal investigation for some of his lobbying work. His firm boasted its lobbying team helped revise a section of the Republican Party's 2000 platform to make it favorable to its island client.

In addition, two of Abramoff's lobbying colleagues on the Marianas won political appointments inside federal agencies.

"Our standing with the new administration promises to be solid as several friends of the CNMI (islands) will soon be taking high-ranking positions in the Administration, including within the Interior Department," Abramoff wrote in a January 2001 letter in which he persuaded the island government to follow him as a client to his new lobbying firm, Greenberg Traurig.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-05-06-abramoff-bush_x.htm

[mrcheerful]

1. Yet when they are dragged into court for something said over phone

they will be the biggest "thats not fair" whinners in court.

[acmejack]

3. That's different!

He don't want us knowing his personal stuff!

[Maddy McCall]

2. k/r

[hootinholler]

4. I was overcome with the same sentiments on my drive to work this AM n/t