Tommy and Jack... It was all about the money (AND the power AND the influence)
jack and tommy really didn't care much where the money came from as long as the check didn't bounce...
what a sweet, sweet deal... cultivate powerful and influential friends and then charge others exorbitant sums of money just because you know them... yeah, ok, you'd have to actually produce the occasional result but, still, not a bad deal overall... Submit To Propeller
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The U.S. Family Network, a public advocacy group that operated in the 1990s with close ties to Rep. Tom DeLay and claimed to be a nationwide grass-roots organization, was funded almost entirely by corporations linked to embattled lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to tax records and former associates of the group.
During its five-year existence, the U.S. Family Network raised $2.5 million but kept its donor list secret. The list, obtained by The Washington Post, shows that $1 million of its revenue came in a single 1998 check from a now-defunct London law firm whose former partners would not identify the money's origins.
Two former associates of Edwin A. Buckham, the congressman's former chief of staff and the organizer of the U.S. Family Network, said Buckham told them the funds came from Russian oil and gas executives. Abramoff had been working closely with two such Russian energy executives on their Washington agenda, and the lobbyist and Buckham had helped organize a 1997 Moscow visit by DeLay (R-Tex.).
what a sweet, sweet deal... cultivate powerful and influential friends and then charge others exorbitant sums of money just because you know them... yeah, ok, you'd have to actually produce the occasional result but, still, not a bad deal overall... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
12/31/2005
