USA: new documents in Abramoff-Bush scandal

This video is called Highlights from the Jack Abramoff Scandal.

Associated Press reports:

E-Mails Detail Lobbyist Jack Abramoff‘s Donation Requests, Bush Administration Contacts

By JOHN SOLOMON

WASHINGTON Jun 25, 2006 (AP)— Wanted: Face time with President Bush or top adviser Karl Rove.

Suggested donation: $100,000.

The middleman: lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Blunt e-mails that connect money and access in Washington show that prominent Republican activist Grover Norquist facilitated some administration contacts for Abramoff’s clients while the lobbyist simultaneously solicited those clients for large donations to Norquist’s tax-exempt group.

Those who were solicited or landed administration introductions included foreign figures and American Indian tribes, according to e-mails gathered by Senate investigators and federal prosecutors or obtained independently by The Associated Press.

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