Didn't take long for Ashcroft to cash in on his AG job. Bloodsucker.

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Lobbyist Ashcroft pulls in $269,000
Clients capitalize on policies he promoted

By Andrew Zajac
Washington Bureau
Published January 10, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Less than three months after registering as a lobbyist, former Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft has banked at least $269,000 from just four clients and appears to be developing a practice centered on companies that want to capitalize on a government demand for homeland security technology that boomed under sometimes controversial policies he promoted while in office.

Three clients of Ashcroft's lobbying firm want his help in selling data or software with homeland security applications, according to government filings.

A fourth, Israel Aircraft Industries International, is competing with Chicago's Boeing Co. to sell the government of South Korea a billion-dollar airborne radar system.

>>>>In year-end filings, Ashcroft's firm, The Ashcroft Group LLC, reported collecting $269,000, including $220,000 from Oracle Corp., which won Justice Department approval of a multibillion-dollar acquisition less than a month after hiring Ashcroft in October.

full article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0601100146jan10,1,5202568.story

[napi21]

1. Hmmm, I wonder how much he's sweating the probable new

legislation that will limit the influence of lobbyists? I do believe the Pubs will enact some new legislation that will limit what lobbyists, and what kind of relationships congress can have with them, just because their political survival depends on it!

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2. He doesn't seem to be concerned

in the least.

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3. Here's an earlier story

Ashcroft helps Israelis on Korean weapons deal
By Jonathan E. Kaplan

Israel’s major aerospace company hired former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft’s lobbying firm late last month to help secure the U.S. government’s approval to sell a weapons system to the South Korean Air Force, according to lobbying disclosure records.

The Ashcroft Group and IAI signed a nondisclosure agreement, said spokeswoman Juleanna Glover Weiss, and IAI officials based in D.C. and Tel Aviv said the company does not comment on its consultants.

Ashcroft has built a lucrative lobbying practice since starting last summer. Public records also show that Oracle; ChoicePoint, a company that sells data to police and federal law-enforcement agencies; and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants have hired Ashcroft.

Public records do not disclose how much IAI is paying Ashcroft. The records show that IAI also hired Morris Amitay for $20,000.

http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/010406/news2.html

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4. Soaring like an eagle, is he?

Schmuck... :puke:

[Inland]

5. disgusting. nt