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...City. Reed assured Abramoff he had "put in a tag call to karl to find out the best contact at fema." Four months later, Abramoff wrote Reed that he needed some "serious swat from Karl" to get the Justice Department to free $16.3 million for a jail that his Choctaw Indian clients were planning to build in Mississippi. As it happened, Abramoff had caught Reed at a ripe moment. "Am at a lunch with Rove at the [Republican National Committee] meeting and just talked to the AG [then Texas Attorney General John Cornyn, now a U.S. Senator]," he e-mailed...
...advance his interests. It shows how easy it is for seasoned operators to violate the spirit of the law--possibly while staying within the letter of it--as they peddle influence. The correspondence also lays bare that, of the $7.7 million Abramoff and fellow lobbyist Michael Scanlon charged the Choctaw for projects in 2001, they spent $1.2 million for their efforts and split the rest in a scheme they called "gimme five." Most of all, it shines a bright light into the dark places of Washington where money, politics and lobbyists meet...
...need to give Grover something for helping, so the first transfer will be a bit lighter," Abramoff wrote. The transfer was apparently lighter than even Abramoff expected. In a note to himself on Feb. 22, Abramoff wrote, "Grover kept another $25K!" Norquist says he had permission. He says a Choctaw representative--he can't remember who-- instructed him on two occasions to keep $25,000 of the money for his group...
What of the friendship among the three men? In 2002 Abramoff came to see Reed as competition and cut him off the Choctaw gravy train. "He is a bad version of us! No more money for him," Abramoff wrote Scanlon. Norquist was still standing by Abramoff last week, in a way. "I've known Jack for a long time," he said. "He's never approached me for anything improper. But we have led very different lives over the last 20 years." --With reporting by Greg Fulton and Greg Land/Atlanta and Viveca Novak/ Washington
...these will be on display at Oklahoma City's annual Red Earth Festival, one of North America's largest native cultural events. And it's fitting that the festival is held in Oklahoma, home to one of the largest Native American populations in the U.S. Cherokee, Cheyenne and Choctaw are just some of the 100 or so tribes that gather at State Fair Park for this massive powwow from June...