Ethics panel chair linked to lobby firm
06/09/05
Revelations that the House ethics committee chairman had contacts with a law firm connected to the ethics controversy about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's overseas trips fueled demands Wednesday for the case to be turned over to an independent investigator. The firm that employed lobbyist Jack Abramoff had an ongoing relationship with U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of the ethics panel, as the firm lobbied for the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands government, according to law firm records"...
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3217571
from Houston Chronicle
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Revelations that the House ethics committee chairman had contacts with a law firm connected to the ethics controversy about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's overseas trips fueled demands Wednesday for the case to be turned over to an independent investigator. The firm that employed lobbyist Jack Abramoff had an ongoing relationship with U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of the ethics panel, as the firm lobbied for the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands government, according to law firm records"...
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/politics/3217571
from Houston Chronicle
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 10. Jun, 12:05
