Michigan Connection to Jack Abramoff
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
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- The Saginaw Chippewa tribe: Abramoff allegedly bilked the tribe out of $10 million, while Scanlon got $4 million. The money was part of $80 million the pair charged for consulting four tribes in 2000-03.
Representatives of the Michigan tribe told a U.S. Senate panel in 2004 that they paid about $4 million for a database of Michigan voters that could have been purchased for $75,000.
In various e-mails to Scanlon, Abramoff called his Saginaw Chippewa clients "troglodytes," "plain stupid," "morons," "SagChip idiots" and "the stupidest idiots in the land for sure."
The wealthy tribe did get $3 million in federal money meant to build schools for poor tribes after intervention by Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont. The tribe's Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Mt. Pleasant earns more than $400 million yearly.
Burns, who got $136,000 from Abramoff, has returned some of the money.
Democratic Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow and Rep. David Camp, R-Midland, have said they urged Burns to allow the tribe to get the school money. The tribe's casino is in Camp's district.
- Contributions to Michigan congressional members (all since 1999):
Camp, $35,500; Rep. Dale Kildee, D-Flint, $19,000; Stabenow $5,000; Carl Levin, $2,000; Rep. Sander Levin, D-Royal Oak, $4,000; and Rep. John Dingell, D-Dearborn, $2,000.
Other contributions: Carl Levin: about $5,000 from Abramoff's former employer, Greenberg Traurig, LLP. The funds weren't connected to Abramoff or casinos, said Tara Andringa, a Levin spokeswoman.
Rep. Peter Hoesktra, R-Holland, $2,000 from Greenberg Traurig. Hoesktra has said he never got money from Abramoff. In 2000, Hoesktra got $5,000 from the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, one of Abramoff's clients.
Posted by mardenhill 1/04/2006 01:24:00 PM
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