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Article: Abramoff Put White House Contacts at 400
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- The Washington Post
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- September 29, 2006
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Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his colleagues billed their
clients for more than 400 contacts with White House officials
between 2001 and 2004, according to a report released yesterday by
the House Government Reform Committee. The report did not determine
how many of those contacts -- referenced in e-mails and Abramoff's
often falsified client bills -- actually occurred.
The 93-page report was jointly issued by the committee's
chairman, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), and its ranking
Democrat, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (Calif.). They wrote that their
investigation found the current reporting requirements "failed to
protect public officials from the ethical undertow generated by ...