Lobbyists Have Plunged America Into A Den Of Wholesale Prostitution-(A Harsha Sankar Article)
Dear Citizen, January 2006
Lawyer/lobbyist Jack Abramoff hasfinally come under fire. While he has been convicted of various charges, it must be known that he and his partner, Michael Scanlon, billed the Indian tribes $82 million for favors from lawmakers that would stifle and restrict potential competitors of the Indian Tribe gambling casinos as well “protecting”them from taxation. When did he come under the radar screen? After he passed the $50 million mark? For years he has engaged in other obviously immoral andcorrupt activities.
Abramoff and another crony Adam Kidanfaked a $23 million wire transfer so they would receive the necessary financing to purchase SunCruz Casinos gambling boat fleet. He used his close connections with at least 240 lawmakers of both parties to carry water for clients.One blatant example was his interactions with David Safavian, former procurement chief of the OMB and also former lobbying partner of Abramoff. He has been accused of lying about discussions of Abramoff’s desire to acquire federal property during their golfing junket in far-off Scotland.
The Chinese spend $500 million on American lobbyists to dictate U.S. trade policy and have $819 billion in hard currency ,mainly as a result of that expenditure. Israel has funneled indirectly $4.25 million to Congress and Senate and in return received a $2.6 billion dollar grant. American corporate heavyweights have hired the law/lobbyist firm Patton Boggs, at an hourly rate of $495.00, to work with two other firms hired by the Indian Government to push a civilian nuclear deal between thetwo nations.
One of the world's fastest growing companies, Google, has tripled in just two years the money it spends in lobbying for "protection" from potential government and legal actions that harmed fast-growing innovative companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart.They chose to ignore Congress and anti-trust regulators.Google has even gone to the extent of hiring an attorney, who has no knowledge of software and the marketing of it, to head its business development. He is currently involved in litigation with Microsoft and the Association of American Publishers and Authors Guild.
The wholesale prostitution does not end in the nation's capital nor in the legal profession. A vast network of operatives are needed to maintain this.
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
-Ronald Reagan
Very Truly Yours,
Harsha Sankar
908 Valley Ridge Road
Covington, Virginia 24426
Lawyer/lobbyist Jack Abramoff hasfinally come under fire. While he has been convicted of various charges, it must be known that he and his partner, Michael Scanlon, billed the Indian tribes $82 million for favors from lawmakers that would stifle and restrict potential competitors of the Indian Tribe gambling casinos as well “protecting”them from taxation. When did he come under the radar screen? After he passed the $50 million mark? For years he has engaged in other obviously immoral andcorrupt activities.
Abramoff and another crony Adam Kidanfaked a $23 million wire transfer so they would receive the necessary financing to purchase SunCruz Casinos gambling boat fleet. He used his close connections with at least 240 lawmakers of both parties to carry water for clients.One blatant example was his interactions with David Safavian, former procurement chief of the OMB and also former lobbying partner of Abramoff. He has been accused of lying about discussions of Abramoff’s desire to acquire federal property during their golfing junket in far-off Scotland.
The Chinese spend $500 million on American lobbyists to dictate U.S. trade policy and have $819 billion in hard currency ,mainly as a result of that expenditure. Israel has funneled indirectly $4.25 million to Congress and Senate and in return received a $2.6 billion dollar grant. American corporate heavyweights have hired the law/lobbyist firm Patton Boggs, at an hourly rate of $495.00, to work with two other firms hired by the Indian Government to push a civilian nuclear deal between thetwo nations.
One of the world's fastest growing companies, Google, has tripled in just two years the money it spends in lobbying for "protection" from potential government and legal actions that harmed fast-growing innovative companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart.They chose to ignore Congress and anti-trust regulators.Google has even gone to the extent of hiring an attorney, who has no knowledge of software and the marketing of it, to head its business development. He is currently involved in litigation with Microsoft and the Association of American Publishers and Authors Guild.
The wholesale prostitution does not end in the nation's capital nor in the legal profession. A vast network of operatives are needed to maintain this.
"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
-Ronald Reagan
Very Truly Yours,
Harsha Sankar
908 Valley Ridge Road
Covington, Virginia 24426
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