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...aide to Sununu claimed that the McAuliffe Foundation paid for the family's airfare. But the organization's books, examined by TIME, show no such payment. Thomas Corcoran, president of the Waterville Valley Resort, told TIME he wrote checks for the airfare, lodging and expenses of the Sununu family and other "celebrity" skiers out of a separate account funded by corporate sponsors of the McAuliffe event. Among them: Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Siemens Nixdorf, the electronics firm that was awarded a $7 million computer contract by the state of New Hampshire while Sununu was Governor...
...MAGAZINE and its parent company, Times Mirror, invited Sununu to ski and speak at its three-day gathering in Aspen, Colo., in December 1990. As usual, Sununu classified this trip as official business and flew out on an Air Force jet. Ski magazine officials, however, say they paid for lodging, meals and ski passes for Sununu and his wife. As reported by TIME last week, Sununu's office billed a ski-industry lobbying group, the American Ski Federation, $802 for Nancy Sununu's airfare. A Sununu aide later explained that the payments by Ski and the Ski Federation were "billing...
...EAGLE-TRIBUNE of Lawrence, Mass., located only 10 miles from Sununu's home in Salem, N.H., invited the chief of staff to speak at a newspaper banquet in June 1990. Sununu declared the trip to be official business and flew to Lawrence on an Air Force jet, accompanied by an undisclosed number of his family members. The newspaper, according to one of its editors, reimbursed the government $1,920 for the family's airfares...
Apart from the apparent impropriety of some of his travel arrangements, Sununu may be involved in a conflict of interest stemming from efforts to help a major ski developer. During his first Ski magazine weekend, in Vail, Colo., in 1989, Sununu was joined by an old political associate, Philip T. Gravink, who runs the Loon Mountain ski resort in New Hampshire's White Mountain National Forest. Gravink was a contributor to Sununu's political campaigns and let Sununu and his family ski for free when Sununu was Governor. At the time of the Vail event, Gravink had an application pending...
Upon his return from Vail, Gravink wrote a letter to Sununu at the White House, describing the expansion he wanted. Sununu passed the letter to the EPA and the Forest Service and followed up with what one well-informed Washington official described as "a lot of bullying and bluster" that "made clear what outcome the White House wanted in this case...