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Tony Rudy | Lisa | Liberty Consulting "A consulting firm owned by the wife of Tony C. Rudy, DeLay's deputy chief of staff, was paid $15,600 by [U.S. Family Network] in 1999 and another $10,400 in 2000"[1] |
Tom DeLay | Christine | Buckham's Alexander Strategy Group "made monthly payments averaging $3,200-$3,400 apiece to DeLay's wife, Christine, for three of the years in which he collected money from the USFN and some other clients."[2]
[January 1997], Tan's network of companies Tan Holdings had written five checks of $10,000 each to USFN, and Buckham's wife had claimed $10,000 in "commissions" on these checks, according to the group's ledger. Later in 1997, Wendy Buckham claimed another $10,000 in commissions on Tan's checks, and in 1998, Alexander Strategy Group took another $20,000 in commissions explicitly attributed to the Tan donations, according to the ledger. [3] |
John Doolittle | Julie | Julie Doolittle has a consulting firm called Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions. Two of her clients are her husband's leadership PAC and campaign, for which she does fundraising. She gets a 15% commission on contributions.
Julie Doolittle's other known clients are Jack Abramoff and Ed Buckham.[4][5] |
John Sweeney | Gayle Ford | Her company Creative Consulting has made a substantial income since 2003 from Sweeney: $49,209 in fees variously described as "fundraising" or "consulting" on FEC reports. Her other client was PCC Consulting, aka Powers, Crane, & Co. [6] |
Edwin Feulner | Linda | Linda Feulner was a paid consultant to Alexander Strategy Group.[7] |
Curt Weldon | Karen and Kim (daughters) | Solutions North America Inc. won a $240,000 contract to promote the good works of Dragomir and Bogoljub Karic, linked to Slobodan Milosevic. Saratov Aviation, a Russian aerospace manufacturer, hired SNA for $20,000 a month plus 10% of any new business it generated. Itera International Energy Corp., that had just agreed to pay his daughter's firm $500,000 a year to "create good public relations." SNA paid for Weldon chief of staff Michael J. Conallen Jr. to take a "fact-finding" trip to Serbia. [8] Kim is employed by AgustaWestland, who Weldon helped win a $1.7 billion contract to build Marine One. |
Richard Pombo | Annette | Federal records show that Rep. Richard Pombo used campaign funds to pay his wife and brother a total of $255,916 over the past two years -- or 25 cents for every dollar the Tracy Republican raised for his re-election effort. Reports filed with the Federal Election Commission also show Pombo's campaign paid the congressman's wife, Annette, an additional $39,938 from 2001 to 2002. His brother Randall received $169,299 during the same period, bringing the total payments to the family since 2001 to $465,153.[9] |
Ed Buckham | Wendy | "She also collected $43,000 in "commissions" that year on the first $524,975 in contributions to the group from business entities that worked with Abramoff, according to its ledger." |
William J. Jefferson | Andrea Green | ANJ Group received more than $450,000 from iGate.[10] |
Jeffrey Shockey | Alexandra | When Jeffrey Shockey left his lobbying job at Bill Lowery’s firm in 2005 to become deputy staff director for the House Appropriations Committee (at $160,000), Lowery's firm hired Alexandra as a subcontractor. She keeps an office at Lowery's firm and works under the name of Hillscape Associates. Hillscape’s address on federal disclosure forms, too, matches that of the Lowery firm.[11] |
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032501166_pf.html
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032501166_pf.html
- ^ http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/003886.html
- ^ http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000132.php
- ^ http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000139.php
- ^ http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000158.php
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59539-2005Apr16.html
- ^ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-weldon20feb20,1,4228013,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true
- ^ http://online.recordnet.com/articlelink/120504/news/articles/120504-gn-2.php
- ^ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/06/05/GR2006060500046.html
- ^ http://tpmmuckraker.com/shockey.php