Word: delayer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Indian tribes: Abramoff lobbied on their behalf mainly to protect their casino interests?thwarting competing ventures and legislative moves to tax gambling revenues. He and partner Michael Scanlon, a former aide to Congressman Tom DeLay, were also secretly playing off their clients against one another and bilking them of millions...
Russian oil and gas firms: As first reported by the Washington Post, two executives allegedly wanted to ensure that a U.S. bill that would enable the IMF to bail out the Russian economy in 1998 would not impose high taxes on their industry. Abramoff helped them cultivate DeLay...
National Center for Public Policy Research: Abramoff sat on the board of this think tank when, in 2000, he took DeLay and his aide Tony Rudy on a golfing junket to Scotland. Two checks of $25,000 to this entity from eLottery and an Indian tribe allegedly helped cover the $70,000 bill...
...that when you start seeing little signs of trouble?a few admonishments from the ethics committee, a gift or a trip that a Congressman shouldn't have taken?you start looking for a pattern. We were the first to reveal aspects of the crucial role that Ed Buckham (Tom DeLay's former chief of staff and pastor) played hooking up Abramoff with Tom DeLay's office. We found out that, in arranging a questionable junket to London, DeLay staff members were demanding that Abramoff produce Lion King tickets, rooms at the Four Seasons and other lavish accommodations. And?with...
ABANDONED. By TOM DELAY, 58, his bid to remain House majority leader, amid a series of congressional scandals and calls by fellow Republicans for him to step down (see page...