Emails Link Delay And Abramoff On Trips

Emails link Delay and Abramoff on European trip This is not good news for Tom Delay: "Tom DeLay's office knew lobbyist Jack Abramoff had arrange
By John Amato — May 5, 2006

Emails link Delay and Abramoff on European trip

This is not good news for Tom Delay:

"Tom DeLay's office knew lobbyist Jack Abramoff had arranged the financing for the GOP leader's controversial European golfing trip in 2000 and was concerned "if someone starts asking questions." House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting free trips from lobbyists. DeLay, R-Texas, reported to Congress that a Republican advocacy group had paid for the spring 2000 trip that DeLay, his wife and top aides took to Scotland and England. The e-mails obtained by The Associated Press show DeLay's staff asked Abramoff -not the advocacy group - to account for the costs that had to be legally disclosed on congressional travel forms. DeLay's office was worried the group being cited as paying the costs might not even know about them, the e-mails state...read on."

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