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...days corporate honchos will begin arriving en masse in Junket City - this year, that?s Detroit - for the Superbowl, a championship football game that many of those seated in the luxury boxes won?t even bother to watch. Why should they? Let's be honest - this shindig is all about the parties and perks. The only scores that matter is the Scores with topless dancers and cocktails not far from Ford Field. But this year corporate card-carrying spendthrifts had better be careful. The expense-account cops are out in force - or so we?re told - and business entertaining...
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...
...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 e-mails obtained by my colleague Adam Zagorin?we showed that Ralph Reed was helping Abramoff gain access at the White House...
...beside each one indicating how well he believed he'd mastered it. Proxmire was, not surprisingly, a workaholic, and also a notorious tightwad. He worked seven days a week and was grumpy on holidays when Federal offices closed, and regularly reimbursed the Senate for unused staff money. After a junket to Europe as a junior senator, he decided such trips wasted taxpayer money, and never again traveled abroad on the federal dollar. The senator finally let me travel to some defense installations on a government-paid staff trip after I showed him how the information I collected would bolster legislation...
...already known that investigators had been inquiring into Abramoff's dealings with DeLay, who has had to give up his House majority leader post as he fights unrelated conspiracy and money-laundering charges in Texas. They have looked into an expensive 2000 junket that Abramoff arranged for DeLay that included a golf outing at Scotland's famed St. Andrews course. But over the past decade, Abramoff and Scanlon spread money and favors across Capitol Hill. The list of lawmakers who weighed in on the partners' side on one project--blocking the planned casino of a tribal client's rival--totaled...