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...House, where Ballabon had friends. Reed forwarded Abramoff an unctuous message Ballabon had sent him and Reed added the comment, "It's now becoming physically painful," an apparent reference to Reed's distaste at the prospect of sidling up to Ballabon. Abramoff responded with an allusion to the Scottish golf trip he and Reed were to make the following month: "Hey, let's bring Jeff to Scotland and hit balls into him!" Reed, who had traveled to Scotland with Abramoff the year before, wrote back, "Let's hang him upside down from a crane over the 18th...
...When it comes to the world of Washington lobbying, golf seems to bring out the worst in people. At least that's the impression you get from the Abramoff e-mails, hundreds of thousands of which have been obtained by federal investigators. A wide-ranging inquiry has spread across Washington and led Wednesday to the release by the Secret Service of the dates and times of two Abramoff visits to the White House. The Administration has previously acknowledged three other visits Abramoff made to the complex. The Administration also released e-mails Wednesday showing that a former official, David Safavian...
...trouble over the last year, one junket that he arranged is proving particularly damaging. In August 2002, Abramoff flew Reed, Safavian, Congressman Bob Ney of Ohio, and Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, on a rented Gulfstream II jet to St. Andrews, Scotland, for five days of golf, food and merriment. In the last few weeks, court action and new e-mails have tainted all four guests on the trip...
...good reason. The itinerary for the trip, provided by Abramoff to Safavian a month before departure, was lavish. The private jet to Europe was followed by a stay at the Old Course Hotel (current rates begin at $450 per night), afternoon teeing off at the Kingsbarns links golf course and a late dinner. Golf the following day at a different course was to be followed by dinner in Edinburgh and the famous "Military Tattoo" parade at Edinburgh Castle. Three more days of golf at five different courses were to be followed by a stopover in London at the Mandarin Oriental...
...lawyers said this week that Ney doesn't even like playing golf and said that he went on the trip to meet with Scottish and British parliamentarians. One stop on the itinerary is listed as "Dinner in Edinburgh (possibly with Conservative Party)." Otherwise no political events are mentioned. Representatives of the Scottish parliament have said Ney did not address them. Ney's travel disclosure forms filed with Congress listed the non-profit National Center for Public Policy Research, an organization funded by Abramoff clients, as the sponsor of the trip, but NCPPR later denied having paid or been involved...