4:23:21 PM EDT
PACS linked to Abramoff and Cannon
1. AMERICAN SUCCESS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE: San Manuel Tribal Administration (Indian Tribes-Gambling-Abramoff)http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_ind/C00336644/
Gave Cannon $1000 6/13/2000 http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_give/1999_H6UT03042
2. ASCAP LEGISLATIVE FUND FOR THE ARTS, THE: (Greenberg/Traurig-Abramoff)
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_ind/C00228296/A-E/
Gave Cannon $1000 in 1999
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_give/1999_H6UT03042
3. NACS Political Action Committee: Rely on Your Beliefs Fund- Abramoff:
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_rcvd/C00126763/
Gave Cannon $5,000 in 1999
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_give/1999_H6UT03042
National Association of Realtors/ (Abramoff/Greenberg Traurig) Rely on Your Belief's Fund, America's Majority Trust: http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_rcvd/C00030718/
Gave Cannon $10,000 in 1999/2000: http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/can_give/1999_H6UT03042
National Federation of America's Busineses (Greenberg/Traurig)http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/com_rcvd/C00101105/
gave Cannon $1000 in 2000:
This is from just one annual report that we haven't finished yet!
Total: $18,000 for 1 year alone!!!! so far!!!
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7:20:52 PM EDT
Abramoff's Lobbying Contacts (Wikipedia)
In December 1994, Abramoff was hired as a lobbyist at Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP, the lobbying arm of Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, based in Seattle, WA. According to The Seattle Times in 1995, following the Republican takeover of Congress, partner Emanuel Rouvelas determined that the firm "didn't have a conservative, Christian Coalition Republican with strong ties to the new Republican leadership." For this reason the traditionally Democratic firm extended a job offer to Abramoff, who was described in a press release as having close ties to Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey.
According to The Seattle Times, Abramoff used "Preston Gates as the launching pad for schemes of fraud and influence peddling that would play out on a larger scale" now becoming "one of the biggest lobbying scandals in a generation."[10]
In 1995, Abramoff began representing Indian tribes with gambling interests. He became involved with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. One of Abramoff's first acts as a tribal gaming lobbyist was to defeat a Congressional bill to tax Indian casinos, sponsored by Reps. Bill Archer (R-TX) and Ernest Istook (R-OK). According to Washington Business Forward, a lobbying trade magazine, "Tom DeLay was a major factor in those victories, and the fight helped cement the alliance between the two men.[11] Delay has called Abramoff "one of his closest and dearest friends"
Choctaw Donations: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=Choctaw&txtState=%28all+states%29&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2006=Y&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&Order=N
Marianna Islands,
Executives of Naftasib, a Russian energy company, funneled almost $3.4 million to Abramoff and DeLay advisor Ed Buckham between 1997 and 2005. About $60,000 was spent on a trip to Russia in 1997 for Tom DeLay, Buckham, and Abramoff. In 1998, $1 million was sent to Buckham via his organization U.S. Family Network to "influence DeLay's vote in 1998 on legislation that helped make it possible for the IMF to bail out the faltering Russian economy." DeLay voted for the legislation. The money was funneled through the Dutch company Voor Huisen, the Bahamas company Chelsea Enterprises, and the London law firm James & Sarch Co.[13][14]
Abramoff joins Greenberg Traurig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff
Tyco: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff
Others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff
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3:09:32 PM EDT
David Safavian Lobbying Contacts
Janus-Merritt or just Janus:
Grover Norquist
Intrernet Consumer Choice Coalition
In 1999, Safavian founded the Internet Consumer Choice Coalition, a nonprofit whose sole purpose was to fight a bill authored by Republican Arizona senator Jon Kyl that would have made online gambling a federal crime. Coalition members included the American Civil Liberties Union, the Association of Concerned Taxpayers, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Interactive Services Association, the Small Business Survival Committee, and the United States Internet Council. Some coalition members--the Interactive Services Association, for one--were also clients of Safavian's. Another, Americans for Tax Reform, was Norquist's activist group.[2]
Greenberg Traurig, the firm that employed Abramoff
Safavian has been accused of working as a lobbyist for Abdurahman Alamoudi.
according to Senate disclosure reports on file, this was incorrect. For years Janus-Merritt registered as a lobbyist for Alamoudi. And then, on December 17, 2001, after Safavian had left the firm, Janus-Merritt resubmitted its disclosure forms. This time the name of Alamoudi had been replaced by the name of Dr. Jamal al Barzinji. Why the firm changed its registration is unknown.
For his part, Safavian told the Senate, al Barzinji, not Alamoudi, was his client. "Dr. Jamal al Barzinji," he said, "should have been listed as the client retaining the firm for work related to Malaysian political prisoner Anwar Ibrahim." In fact, Barzinji had been listed as a contact, not a client, on all the disclosure forms.
The replacement name is also problematical. On March 20, 2002, Barzinji's home was raided by a federal task force investigating terrorist finances. A federal affidavit identifies Barzinji as the ringleader of a group suspected of aiding terrorists.[2]
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3:02:26 PM EDT
Background info on Abramoff
http://www.jackinthehouse.org/characters/ Some of the players.
http://www.jackinthehouse.org/news/story.php?view=3619 Abramoff was lobbying to for Casinos on Indian lands.
David Safavian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Safavian Cannon's Chief of staff and an Abramoff political partner.
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2:42:27 PM EDT
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