Politics > Politics-USA > Indicted Republican was paid $1.2 million for Ex-Malaysia PM meeting with Bush
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"Harry Hope" |
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21 Feb 2006 06:49:11 AM |
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Indicted Republican was paid $1.2 million for Ex-Malaysia PM meeting with Bush |
From The Associated Press, 2/21/06:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-malaysia-us-abramoff,0,5782631.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Ex-Malaysia PM Says Abramoff Paid to Help
By Associated Press
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia --
Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said Monday that disgraced
lobbyist Jack Abramoff was paid $1.2 million to organize his 2002
meeting with President Bush, but denied the money came from the
Malaysian government.
Mahathir told reporters he was aware a payment was made to Abramoff,
but he didn't know who made it.
He said he had been persuaded by the U.S. think tank Heritage
Foundation to meet with Bush at the time.
"It is true that somebody paid but it was not the (Malaysian)
government," Mahathir said.
"I understood some people paid a sum of money to lobbyists in America
but I do not know who these people were and it was not the Malaysian
government."
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