Does anyone have the approximate dates that Abramoff was at the WH?

[Contrary1]

Searching for the pictures. I have a scathingly brilliant idea as to where I might find them. :evilgrin:

[mzteris]

1. nevermind

wrong link . . . I'll keep looking.

[mzteris]

2. pics to peruse . . .

(According to McClellan, Abramoff was a guest at three White House Chanukah receptions.)

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://shmais.com/img/gallery/whitehouse04/&h=89&w=110&sz=3&tbnid=lRbRKdtkrJEJ:&tbnh=64&tbnw=80&hl=en&start=8&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522white%2Bhouse%2522%2Bchanukah%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26rls%3DRNWE,RNWE:2005-22,RNWE:en

[mzteris]

4. May 2001?

From the Texas Observer:

Four months after he took the oath of office in 2001, President George W. Bush was the attraction, and the White House the venue, for a fundraiser organized by the alleged perpetrator of the largest billing fraud in the history of corporate lobbying. In May 2001, Jack Abramoff's lobbying client book was worth $4.1 million in annual billing for the Greenberg Traurig law firm. He was a friend of Bush advisor Karl Rove. He was a Bush "Pioneer," delivering at least $100,000 in bundled contributions to the 2000 campaign. He had just concluded his work on the Bush Transition Team as an advisor to the Department of the Interior. He had sent his personal assistant Susan Ralston to the White House to work as Rove's personal assistant. He was a close friend, advisor, and high-dollar fundraiser for the most powerful man in Congress, Tom DeLay. Abramoff was so closely tied to the Bush Administration that he could, and did, charge two of his clients $25,000 for a White House lunch date and a meeting with the President. From the same two clients he took to the White House in May 2001, Abramoff also obtained $2.5 million in contributions for a non-profit foundation he and his wife operated.

[phoebe]

3. OnMay 9, 2001+ judicial nominations + passing of huge tax cut legislation

http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle_new.asp?ArticleID=13

snip

On May 9, 2001, when he ushered the two tribal chiefs into the White House to meet the President, The Washington Post story that would end his lobbying career and begin two Senate Committee investigations was three years away. (When the Post story broke in February 2004, however, Abramoff and Scanlon, a former Tom DeLay press aide, were already targets of a U.S. Attorney’s investigation in Washington.)


coincidentally same day Bush announced his judicial nominees (Gonzales et al..)- and the passing of the budget resolution...

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/05/09/budget.wrap.03/

The resolution calls for $1.35 billion in tax relief over the next 11 years, somewhat less than Bush's proposed $1.6 trillion cut over 10 years. Bush's plan was sidetracked in April when the Senate shaved billions off the tax cut in favor of increased education spending.

[ThomWV]

5. Want to Know To The Minute?

There has to be a visitor's log at the White House. Send in an FOIA request for it for every day of the month in question. Just offer to pay some reasonable fee for finding and reproducing it and then ask that the fee be waived because you are a dirt poor citizen no affiliated with anyone or group with so much as a dime. Drop 'er in the mail.