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CNN
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An aide to Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, accepted $30,000 worth of tickets from Jack Abramoff and took a golf junket to Scotland in exchange for assisting the lobbyist, according to court papers filed Monday.
The aide, Mark Zachares, will plead guilty Tues..
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FOX News
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Former Hollywood lobbyist and presidential adviser Jack Valenti has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.
Valenti, 85, had the stroke last week and remains at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center in Baltimore, according to a statement issued b..
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Denver Post
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Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles' guilty plea to obstruction of justice last week marked another disgraceful chapter in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal.
It also served as a reminder of how poorly the Interior Department and t..
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ABC News
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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco industry lobbyist, won a long battle in court to withdraw all funding for Mississippi's highly successful anti-smoking program, and last week the last dollar ran out...
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ElectionSpeak
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In this video added on February 21, 2008, John McCain denies any romantic relationship between him and Vicki Iseman, and claims that he has never betrayed the public trust...
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MSNBC
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Sen. John McCain, responding to published reports about his relationship with a lobbyist, says he “will not allow a smear campaign” to distract from his presidential campaign.
The New York Times quoted anonymous aides as saying they had urged McCai..
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Boston Globe
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WASHINGTON -- A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff more than two years ago, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.
The previously undisclosed Gua..
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Seattle Pi
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With large flame-like earrings, an intricate nose piercing and visible tattoos, Troy Amudson is an unlikely lobbyist. A professional body piercer at Apocalypse Tattoo and Piercing in Seattle, Amudson has been leading a fight to have the state regulate..
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