Originally posted by: Lemon law
Recently in on yahoo news---
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_...ttle;_ylt=Anw7_o8CAXZl_S968UifyoayFz4D
Doolittle called Abramoff a friend and has numerous ties to the lobbyist beyond his wife's work. They include accepting campaign cash from Abramoff, using his sports box without initially reporting it as required and interceding with the Interior Department on behalf of Abramoff's Indian tribe clients.
Two years before Julie Doolittle went to work for Abramoff, Ring discussed with Abramoff the possibility of
getting her a job at a nonprofit accused of doing favors for Abramoff in exchange for cash.
That 2000 exchange was disclosed in an e-mail released by Senate investigators last year, but the job in question didn't come about.
Julie Doolittle was paid $66,690 by Abramoff's firm Greenberg Traurig from September 2002 to February 2004. She was hired to work on a March 2003 fundraiser at the Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., but the event was canceled after the invasion of Iraq.
Julie Doolittle also did fundraising for her husband's congressional campaigns until this year, when he hired an outside fundraiser. Doolittle's employment of his wife became a controversy during his re-election last year, which he won only narrowly despite representing one of the most conservative districts in California.
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Seems the FBI raided the home of Congressman John Doolittle R of California. Mainly over records of his wife's company that had dealing with Abramoff.
Do any have additional insights?
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