Abramoff's $330,000 charity money went traveling

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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/12/15abramoff.html

Abramoff charity's claims disputed
Groups listed as beneficiaries of more than $330,000 in gifts say they never got them

Capital Athletic Foundation, a charity run by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff now at the center of an influence-peddling investigation on Capitol Hill, told the IRS it gave away more than $330,000 in grants in 2002 to four other charities that say they never received the money.

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"We've never received a $300,000 gift, not in our 28 years," a surprised Rabbi Burton Jaffa, P'TACH's national director, told the Austin American-States- man. "It would have been gone by now. I guess I would have been able to pay some teachers on time."

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But around the time Capital Athletic's tax form was filed in fall 2003, listing the $300,000 donation P'TACH says it didn't get, a DeLay-created charity called Celebrations for Children was begun with $300,000 in seed money.

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"No comment on your entire set of questions," he said. DeLay lawyer Cullen, asked Wednesday afternoon if Capital Athletic gave $300,000 to Celebrations for Children, said he could not reply, noting there was not enough time to track that information down.
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[bush_is_wacko]

1. Yeah and I'm more than a little concerned that the latest D.C. trend

of Bush and all the rest "donating" the Abromhoff money to charity is ultimately going to keep that money right in Republican controlled hands.

Freaking "charity" groups all over the world are corrupt and OFTEN used to launder/funnel money to political groups. I hope SOMEONE keeps a really close watch on where that money ends up. Which charities are involved and do those charities ACTUALLY have any accountability or are they just funneling money right back into Rethuglican hands?