Thursday's New York Times will feature a front page story on Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist linked to former House GOP leader DeLay, RAW STORY has learned.
Excerpts from the forthcoming story:
The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a small West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.
The African leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, met with Bush in the Oval Office on May 26, 2004, 10 months after Abramoff made the offer. There has been no evidence in the public record that the lobbyist had any role in organizing the meeting or that he received any money or had a signed contract with Gabon.
White House and State Department officials described Bush's meeting with Bongo as routine. Gabon is regularly accused by the United States of human rights abuses.
Can you believe how crooked these people are? I mean, I am a died in the wool, partisan, left-wing lunatic, but these people continue to amaze me. Who the hell is Jack Abramoff to charge $9,000,000 to meet the President?
Isn't this the State Department's job, and don't we already fund the State Department be our liaison to foreign heads of state?
It's looking like everyone Republican in Washington is going to end up in prison at this rate.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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