Jack Abramoff Confronted By Native American Tribes
WASHINGTON -- On Monday night, the National Press Club played host to the country's most infamous lobbyist, Jack Abramoff. Sitting in the front row were Tom Rodgers, Rick Hill and other members of American Indian tribes. They had come to deliver a message not just to Abramoff, but to official Washington: Abramoff's crimes against Native American tribes will not be forgotten.
They are angry that while the convicted felon reinvents himself as a Washington reformer, advocacy groups and the media seek out his views and largely ignore the Native American tribes who were his biggest victims.
"Native Americans see him as nothing more than a modern-day Custer," Rodgers, a Washington-based tribal lobbyist, told The Huffington Post.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
The tangled web of Rick Santorum when he was "doing real work."
This brings me to one of my favorites the Northern Mariana sweatshops covered by Bill Moyers in Capital Crimes. This is a US territory that does not have to pay minimum wage. It worked like a pump, pumping out what were nearly slaves out of mainland Asia and exploiting them sometimes behind barbed wire. In some case there were incidents of prostitution and forced abortions to keep these workers working. The sweatshop owner gave Jack Abramoff money who then sprinkled to Tom Delay and his republican cronies. One the godly christian Rich Santorum to make sure these sweatshop didn't have to worry about regulations.
This how the Daily Kos covered the connection:
I forgot Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Now it is The Abramoff 65. Turns out that Abramoff billed the Mariana Islands for two meetings with little Ricky in 1996, then his team billed the CNMI for an event, hosted by Santorum's PAC just before the 1996 GOP convention. This was the meeting where Team Abramoff introduced the sweatshop owners to the Republican Conservatives. Attending for the Tan Family was Willie Tan, Ben Fitial and Eloy Inos. And as a gesture of gratitude, the sweatshop owner's of Saipan gave Santorum's PAC a $10,000 donation. That gets little Ricky on the list. Please join me on the jump for more details...
The full post is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/09/25/249626/-PA-Sen:-Rick-Santorum-makes-it-the-Abramoff-65-UPDATED-with-Images
Abramoff later went to jail for cheating the indians out of money and you can hear the email exchange of Rick Santorum's partners.
This how the Daily Kos covered the connection:
I forgot Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Now it is The Abramoff 65. Turns out that Abramoff billed the Mariana Islands for two meetings with little Ricky in 1996, then his team billed the CNMI for an event, hosted by Santorum's PAC just before the 1996 GOP convention. This was the meeting where Team Abramoff introduced the sweatshop owners to the Republican Conservatives. Attending for the Tan Family was Willie Tan, Ben Fitial and Eloy Inos. And as a gesture of gratitude, the sweatshop owner's of Saipan gave Santorum's PAC a $10,000 donation. That gets little Ricky on the list. Please join me on the jump for more details...
The full post is here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/09/25/249626/-PA-Sen:-Rick-Santorum-makes-it-the-Abramoff-65-UPDATED-with-Images
Abramoff later went to jail for cheating the indians out of money and you can hear the email exchange of Rick Santorum's partners.
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