As Though The Republicans Needed Another Lobbying Scandal

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Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio), chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development, is in talks with House Speaker Dennis Hastert about resigning his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee because he has been linked to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. He has denied wrongdoing.

Newsweek: Ohio Rep. Robert Ney personally lobbied the then Secretary of State Colin Powell to relax U.S. sanctions on Iran. Who asked him to? A convicted airplane broker who had just taken the congressman and a top aide on an expense-paid trip to London, NEWSWEEK has learned.

Ney’s lawyer confirmed to NEWSWEEK that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records on Ney’s February 2003 trip paid for by Nigel Winfield, a thrice-convicted felon who ran a company in Cyprus called FN Aviation.

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By agnostic, January 16, 2006 at 1:00 pm Link to this comment
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my, my, my. A thief in the hen house. Even trying to work with what Bush calls a member of he axis of evil. Who would have thought that during 5 years, the GOP went from conservative to criminal in five easy steps.

Now we see why they preached for smaller government - so there would be fewer authorities able to prosecute them.

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