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Article: Court papers: Bush official warned lobbyist about Tyco
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 30, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration's former chief procurement
official tipped off lobbyist Jack Abramoff that the government was
about to suspend the federal contracts of an Abramoff client, newly
filed court papers say.
David Safavian provided "sensitive and confidential information"
about four subsidiaries of Tyco International to Abramoff regarding
internal deliberations at the General Services Administration, say
the court papers filed Friday in a criminal case against Safavian.
Abramoff has pleaded guilty to conspiracy, tax evasion and mail
fraud in a burgeoning bribery probe centered on Capitol Hill but also
involving the Interior Department.
The White House is refusing to ...