I know you have to be thinking, "Who's that asshole pictured with Abramoff client Beningo Fitial?" (It's our president) Raw Story is reporting that Fitial paid Abramoff $11.5 million for lobbying services from 1995 to 2002.
What did Fitial get for his money? A lot of quality face time with Bush, Tom Delay, Conrad Burns, Trent Lott, and Dennis Hastert. Oh, he also received some good old fashioned electioneering.
Fitial, who is now the Governor of the CMNI, (Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands) won a fixed election to become CMNI's Speaker of the House with Abramoff and Michael Scanlon promising US tax dollars for "bartering chips" to get two members of CNMI's House to switch their votes.
Go read the rest here.
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