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...active in conservative causes. But a former DeLay aide tells TIME that it happened during a fund raiser shortly after the election in which Republicans gained full control of Congress for the first time in more than 40 years. In this account, DeLay's then chief of staff Ed Buckham pulled an unfamiliar figure toward DeLay and told the new majority whip that he was an important lobbyist and fund raiser and that they would soon be working together...
...Buckham was almost as important a person to know as DeLay. He was not only DeLay's top staff member but also a licensed nondenominational minister who served as his pastor. He remained DeLay's closest political adviser even after Buckham left DeLay's staff to start his own lobbying shop in 1998, and DeLay rose to majority leader. Buckham was also the over-seer of the political operation known around Washington as DeLay Inc., a tight meshing of business and conservative interests that was granted a seat at the table in exchange for putting money and political muscle behind...
...Abramoff in December 2000. But he soon left, having discovered, former associates of both men say, that it was not as much fun to work for Abramoff as to be courted by him. Rudy, now at Alexander Strategy Group, a firm founded by former DeLay chief of staff Ed Buckham, did not respond to phone and e-mail requests for an interview...
KORUSEC has been a financial boon for Buckham's firm. Although the law strictly limits how much a charity may spend on lobbying, KORUSEC's filings with the Internal Revenue Service indicate it pays Buckham's Alexander Strategy Group $5,000 a month in rent for a Georgetown office where repeated calls by TIME were answered only by a machine featuring the voice of a long-departed executive director. In addition, one of Kim's subsidiaries--Universal Bearings Inc., a manufacturer in Indiana--has paid Buckham's firm $600,000 since 2001 for what its federal filing describes as lobbying...
Republican lobbyists were not the only ones to get KORUSEC's business. Buckham brought in as a "strategic partner" a Democratic firm called the Harbour Group, which charged KORUSEC $150,456 in 2002 and 2003. Lobbyist Joel Johnson--a former Clinton White House official who has since moved from Harbour to the Glover Park Group and taken the KORUSEC account with him--says he was hired "to recruit Democrats to go on trips." He insists, however, that the excursions were serious endeavors with briefings by Korean officials and a trip to the demilitarized zone. As for elevating Kim's image...