AP--Report: Barnes & Thornburg lobbyist linked to Abramoff has quit

[PhilipShore]

Fort Wayne News Sentinel
AP Wire
Report: Barnes & Thornburg lobbyist linked to Abramoff has quit
Jan. 22, 2006

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/13687240.htm

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The Indianapolis-based law firm of Barnes & Thornburg has accepted the resignation of one of its Washington lobbyists implicated in the bribery and corruption scandal swirling around Jack Abramoff, a report Sunday said.

Neil Volz, one of three Barnes & Thornburg lobbyists with ties Abramoff or his Indian tribe clients, quit his job three days after Abramoff pleaded guilty earlier this month to bribery and tax evasion charges, The Journal Gazette reported Sunday.

[Lindsay]

1. Left to spend more time with his

lawyer, I guess.

[Ouabache]

2. so Volz is

'back home again in Indiana' <singing>

heh-

[UpInArms]

3. Volz was Bob Ney's aide (Ohio)

Update 37: Bush to Give Up $6,000 Linked to Abramoff

The court papers in the Washington case refer to Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, saying that regarding SunCruz, the congressman placed a statement drafted by Abramoff partner Michael Scanlon in the Congressional Record. The statement, the court papers say, was calculated to pressure the owner of SunCruz to sell on terms favorable to Abramoff.

Ney denies wrongdoing, saying that "at the time I dealt with Jack Abramoff, I obviously did not know, and had no way of knowing, the self-serving and fraudulent nature of Abramoff's activities."

[WhiteTara]

4. I didn't realize that was a roll of quarters in his pocket

I just thought he was happy to see me? Is that his defense?

[Judi Lynn]

5. Report: Barnes & Thornburg lobbyist linked to Abramoff has quit

Posted on Sun, Jan. 22, 2006
Report: Barnes & Thornburg lobbyist linked to Abramoff has quit
Associated Press

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The Indianapolis-based law firm of Barnes & Thornburg has accepted the resignation of one of its Washington lobbyists implicated in the bribery and corruption scandal swirling around Jack Abramoff, a report Sunday said.

Neil Volz, one of three Barnes & Thornburg lobbyists with ties Abramoff or his Indian tribe clients, quit his job three days after Abramoff pleaded guilty earlier this month to bribery and tax evasion charges, The Journal Gazette reported Sunday.

Barnes & Thornburg's Washington office had hired the three one-time members of Abramoff's former firm, Greenberg Traurig, a year ago even as federal officials investigated Abramoff, who's accused of bilking Indian tribes of millions of dollars in lobbying fees they had paid him.
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But when the three lobbyists joined the Indiana firm, its lobbying revenues tripled. According to reports the firm has filed with the Senate, it received $1.2 million in lobbying fees for the first half of 2005, the most recent reports filed. During the same time in 2004, Barnes & Thornburg's lobbying arm took in $400,000, the newspaper reported.
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