Reply #16: here's an interesting DeLay/Abramoff/Enron link

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12416-20...

DeLay Airfare Was Charged To Lobbyist's Credit Card

Sunday, April 24, 2005; Page A01

The airfare to London and Scotland in 2000 for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was charged to an American Express card issued to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal and tax probe, according to two sources who know Abramoff's credit card account number and to a copy of a travel invoice displaying that number.

DeLay's expenses during the same trip for food, phone calls and other items at a golf course hotel in Scotland were billed to a different credit card also used on the trip by a second registered Washington lobbyist, Edwin A. Buckham, according to receipts documenting that portion of the trip.

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Buckham, a former chief of staff to DeLay, was at the time a registered lobbyist for AT&T, Enron Corp., and the Nuclear Energy Institute. DeLay's wife was employed, at the time of the trip, by Buckham's lobbying firm, the Alexander Strategy Group, and was receiving a salary from it, according to DeLay's personal financial disclosure statement for that year, on file with the House clerk.

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Buckman/DeLay/Abramoff have been joined at the hip for years.

and why is Ed Buckman part of Tom DeLay's "non-profit"?

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/9/15581/1958

excerpt from approx 3/4 down the page:

The mission of the DeLay Foundation For Kids is to address the significant needs of abused and neglected children. The vision of the DeLay Foundation For Kids is to stop the cycle of child abuse and neglect.

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Statement 4 Part V - List of Officers, Directors, Trustees and Key Employees (number of hours per week devoted to position after title)

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Ed Buckman
2929 Briarpark
Houston, TX 77042-3703
Director
4

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