Hillary's Mystery Money Men
Russ Baker & Adam Federman : Campaign Finance
The men behind the money that made Bush now want to claim the Clinton campaign. Is someone cooking the books at Hillary Inc.?
Lobbies/PACs
2007
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Rudy's Bird of Prey
Ari Berman : Campaign Finance
Giuliani's conservative kingmaker knows all about the ugly side of Third World debt. He invented it.
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Rudy's Dirty Money
Ari Berman : Campaign Finance
A closer look at the Texas energy interests fueling the former New York mayor's presidential campaign.
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AIPAC Alternative?
Philip Weiss
Can left-leaning Jews coalesce into a lobby to offset the influence of AIPAC?
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K Street's Favorite Democrat
Ari Berman : Senate
When Max Baucus, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, is every lobbyist's best friend, is economic reform possible?
2006
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AIPAC Runs Right
Eric Alterman : Electoral Politics
American Jews are liberals and support Democrats. Why, then, do Jewish organizations, supported by contributions of liberal Jews, strategize with Republicans on how to smear these same Democrats?
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Can Justice Be Trusted?
The Justice Department meddled in a case against Jack Abramoff in Guam in 2002; last week, Bush nominated the current Abramoff prosecutor to the federal bench. Can the DOJ credibly continue this investigation?
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Abramoff's Evangelical Soldiers
Leaders of the Christian right are paying the price as evidence mounts of their complicity in a sordid GOP gambling-industry scheme.
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Exile on K Street
Scandals abound in the smoking remains of the Alexander Strategy Group.
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On Roy Blunt's Promise to Reform Lobbying Rules If He Becomes House Majority Leader
With plenty of friends on K Street, Roy Blunt is not as forthright as his name suggests.
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Ethics-Go-Round
The House Ethics Committee has been defunct for a year: If now is not the time for both parties to get serious on Congressional ethics, when will it be?
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Everyone's a Reformer
For a long time on Capitol Hill, no one was interested in lobbying reform. Now everybody wants to get in on the act.
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A Member of Congress Tries to Recall Jack Abramoff
Calvin Trillin : Corporate Influence in Washington
Testing a Congressman's memory of the former super-lobbyist: Good old what's-his-name...but me? I hardly knew him.
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Kickback Mountain
: Senate
Cleaning up Congress after the Abramoff scandal involves far more than limits on gifts and perks. It requires barring the 'legalized bribery' of major campaign contributions.
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Shame of the Once-Young Republicans
Robert Scheer : Republican Party
What irony that Jack Abramoff and other once-young Republicans, who hectored their elders about defending the nation's taxpayers and security forces, should now be accused of deeply betraying both.
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Abramoff's Sordid World
Robert Scheer : Conservatives & The American Right
The unfolding Jack Abramoff corruption scandal exposes the hypocrisy of the GOP "revolution," which promised to restore morality to Washington but instead sank deepinto a cesspool of corruption.
2005
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The Ney Scandal Grows
As Justice Department investigators follow the cash flow from lobbyist Jack Abramoff's influence-peddling scandal, the evidence mounts against Ohio Republican Congressman Bob Ney. Who's next?
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Abramoff's Last Stand
Senator John McCain's latest Senate inquiry into über-lobbyist Jack Abramoff strikes deep in the corrupt heart of the Bush Administration.
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I Think I Heard a Liberal Say
For working in the shadows of K Street pay-to-play, here's to The Hammer getting the slammer.
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