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Article: Ralph Reed made big bucks from Enron, FEC report unveils. (People & Events).
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed found a lucrative career once he left TV preacher Pat Robertson's political outfit: As a consultant, Reed was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the Enron Corporation over a five-year period until the company collapsed, a newly released Federal Election Commission (FEC) report has indicated.
The FEC looked into Reed's relationship with Enron as part of an investigation of President George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. Conservative activist Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch had asserted that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney arranged for Enron to pay Reed while Bush used Reed as a political consultant. If ...