From The Associated Press, 12/3/05:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-lobbyist-tribes-texas,0,754809..story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Texas Groups Seek Ralph Reed Casinos Probe
By Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas --
Three Texas watchdog groups asked a county official Thursday to
investigate former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed, who was
hired by lobbyist Jack Abramoff to run an anti-gambling campaign.
Texans for Public Justice, Common Cause of Texas and Public Citizen
filed their complaint with Travis County Attorney David Escamilla.
They said Reed failed to register as a Texas lobbyist in 2001 and
2002, when he received an estimated $4.2 million from Abramoff and his
partner Michael Scanlon to push for the closure of casinos operated by
the Tigua tribe of El Paso and the Alabama Coushatta tribe near
Livingston in East Texas.
A Reed spokeswoman said Thursday she had not yet seen the complaint.
Reed, now running for lieutenant governor in Georgia, has said that he
knew Abramoff's firm was getting money from tribes but that he always
assumed none of it was going to his consulting firm.
The U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee has been investigating
Abramoff and Scanlon, who collected more than $80 million between 2001
and 2004 from six Indian tribes with casinos.
Reed discussed his efforts against the casinos in e-mails released by
the committee.
Scanlon pleaded guilty last week to conspiring to bribe public
officials.
He was ordered to pay restitution totaling more than $19 million to
Indian tribes that he admitted had been defrauded while he and
Abramoff represented them.
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