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...turned down dozens of endorsement contracts. She did ink nine deals with the likes of Motorola, Nike, Colgate-Palmolive and Canon that with her court winnings amount to more than $20 million in annual income. But her agent, Max Eisenbud, and a 25-person "Team Sharapova" at sports-rep firm IMG gave the corporate sponsors just three weeks this year with...
Last week's indictment of former Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff by a Fort Lauderdale grand jury could be making at least one member of Congress skittish: Ohio GOP Rep. Bob Ney, who twice put statements in the Congressional Record that favored Abramoff's side of a bitterly disputed deal involving gambling boats that is at the heart of the charges...
...Rep. Bill Jefferson, whose New Orleans and Washington homes and offices, as well as his car, were raided by the FBI at the beginning of the month. Jefferson is the target of a long-running FBI sting operation investigating whether the Louisiana Democrat pocketed hundreds of thousands of dollars of an investor's money in a business deal involving a high-tech company. Jefferson allegedly promised to use his congressional influence to get government contracts for the firm. Jefferson's lawyer told the Washington Post he is confident his client "did not pocket any money...
...Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, whose relationship with a defense contractor is the focus of an inquiry by a San Diego grand jury. In Washington, Cunningham lived on a yacht, rent-free, owned by the contractor, Mitchell Wade. He sold his San Diego-area home at a price that was inflated by about $700,000 to the same contractor, using the proceeds to buy a bigger place. The Republican Vietnam War fighter pilot has acknowledged using his slot on the Appropriations Committee to push contracts for Wade's companies and said last month he would not run for a ninth term...
...Rep. Don Sherwood, who is fighting a civil suit filed by a woman less than half his age with whom he says he had a five-year affair. No criminal charges were filed against Sherwood after his mistress, who is now 29, called 911 and told police Sherwood had tried to choke her during a backrub. But she has sued the four-term Republican from Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania for $5.5 million, saying he repeatedly struck her, violently yanked her hair and tried to strangle her, promising after each incident never to do it again and begging her not to leave...