Report: Abramoff team had 485 contacts with White House (AP/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jack Abramoff had hundreds of contacts with White House officials, but they brought mixed results for the convicted lobbyist's clients, according to a congressional report.

The draft report of the House Government Reform Committee said the documents -- largely Abramoff's billing records and e-mails -- listed 485 lobbying contacts with White House officials over three years, including 10 with top Bush aide Karl Rove.

Abramoff and associates were successful in getting appropriations for some of their Indian clients, but efforts to influence presidential appointments and nominations "were often not successful," according to the report, obtained Thursday. (Read complete final report -- PDF)
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There were several instances where the documents -- supplied by Abramoff's former lobbying firm -- indicated Rove ate at an Abramoff restaurant, Signatures. There was one occasion where Abramoff got Rove NCAA basketball tournament tickets, but Rove may have paid for them.
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Learning that Rove would appear at his restaurant, Abramoff wrote, "I want him to be given a very nice bottle of wine and have Joseph whisper in his ear (only he should hear) that Abramoff wanted him to have this wine on the house."
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/29/abramoff.wh.ap/index.html

Best headline yet! Direct and to the point.

[rodeodance]

1. it does not matter what the results were!---that is NOT the issue.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. True. But it does make them look like doofuses.

:)

[Catherine Vincent]

2. And no pictures?

[savemefromdumbya]

4. details of contacts blacked out

see my post on general discussion

[Moderator]

5. duplicate from yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=2535565