Boehner Aide Tied to Trip Set by Abramoff

[Judi Lynn]

Boehner Aide Tied to Trip Set by Abramoff
By DAVID HAMMER, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
(02-08) 00:18 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --

A White House aide who was once chief of staff to House Majority Leader John Boehner helped plan a 1996 trip to the Northern Mariana Islands that was organized by fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff, billing records from Abramoff's firm show.

Barry Jackson, now chief deputy to White House adviser Karl Rove, accepted an invitation to travel to the island of Saipan in April 1996 but later decided not to go, White House spokeswoman Erin Healy said Tuesday.

The government of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands extended the invitations to Jackson and other high-level GOP House leadership staff while Congress was considering legislation to control immigration and labor practices in the remote Pacific island territory.
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According to bills from Abramoff's former lobbying firm to the Marianas government, Abramoff's staff contacted Boehner's office about island issues at least 10 times in the first four months of 1996. Copies of the billing records were obtained by The Associated Press through open-records requests to the territorial government.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/02/08/national/w001855S74.DTL

[maddezmom]

1. and he now works for Rove

:eyes: They are all criminals. :puke:

[0007]

2. Gotta keep an eye on these kind of fellows, ya know?

Then they have the nerve to tell ya we should feel safe with this administration. They'll pick ya clean and then dump ya.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

3. Boehner is great.

It's as if the Republicans elected Caligula as their leader.

[Mnemosyne]

4. .

[RedEarth]

5. Oh, the Culture of Corruption continues.....

[sabra]

6. kick

:kick:

[eppur_se_muova]

7. More chum in the water. nt