tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post4285342023408138870..comments2024-03-25T13:42:25.771-05:00Comments on Advance Indiana™: Barnes & Thornburg Loses Second Attorney To Abramoff ScandalGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-88255853546504237842007-04-18T15:50:00.000-05:002007-04-18T15:50:00.000-05:00from The Hill: FBI searches Republican lawmaker’s ...from The Hill:<BR/><BR/> FBI searches Republican lawmaker’s home<BR/>By Mike Soraghan and Susan Crabtree<BR/>April 18, 2007<BR/><BR/>The FBI searched the Virginia home of Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) last Friday in its investigation into the ties of the congressman and his wife, Julie, to disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to law enforcement and other Congressional and K Street sources.<BR/><BR/>Doolittle came within three percentage points of losing his election in November after facing months of scrutiny over his relationship with Abramoff, who is in jail for an array of fraud, bribery and money-laundering charges.<BR/><BR/>Doolittle has been under fire for paying his wife’s company, Sierra Dominion, a 15 percent commission on all contributions that the company raised for Doolittle’s campaign committee and leadership PAC. Her only other clients were Abramoff’s former firm, Greenberg Traurig; Abramoff’s former restaurant Signatures; and the Korea-U.S. Exchange Council, which Ed Buckham, a former chief of staff to ex-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), created.<BR/><BR/>The Justice Department previously subpoenaed Julie Doolittle’s files.<BR/><BR/>Doolittle also received contributions from indicted defense contractor Brent Wilkes and his associates, and investigators are probing whether those contributions are linked to any official action Doolittle took to help Wilkes’s company obtain millions of dollars in government earmarks.<BR/><BR/>Wilkes recently was indicted in connection with his investigation stemming from former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham’s (R-Calif.) bribery conviction and jailing.Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-11032874723671475782007-04-17T07:34:00.000-05:002007-04-17T07:34:00.000-05:00Why can't this kind of scrutiny ever hit the (scri...Why can't this kind of scrutiny ever hit the (scriverner's) folks at Ice Miller? <BR/><BR/>They thrive on the gray area.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com