Report finds Burns builds hefty legal bill

[maddezmom]

Report finds Burns builds hefty legal bill
By The Associated Press

HELENA - Former U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns has paid more than $150,000 this year to a Washington, D.C., lawyer who specializes in white-collar crime and congressional investigations, according to campaign finance reports filed this week.

Burns, defeated last year amid ties to convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, paid the Powell Goldstein law firm $88,029 on March 29 with money left over from his 2006 campaign. In January, he paid the law firm $72,347, according to the campaign finance report.

Neither Burns nor his attorney returned phone calls seeking comment.

The Jack Abramoff scandal is still hot on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, it was discovered FBI agents searched the home of Republican Rep. John Doolittle, another lawmaker with ties to the convicted lobbyist. And last week, a lobbyist tied to the Abramoff influence-peddling scandal resigned from the law firm where he worked.

more:http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/04/21/news/state/54-burns.txt

[napi21]

1. Is Doolittlein the same district as Carol Lam was? Does this mean the

investigations are still continuing? I HOPE SO!