Reply #22: Abramnoff & DeLay...took $45 MILLION in kickbacks

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Abramoff associate Michael Scanlon, an ex-aide to Tom DeLay. The Washington Post reported in 2004 that three tribes, the Coushattas, the Saginaw Chippewas and the Agua Caliente paid a staggering $45 million over the past three years to Abramoff and Scanlon. As the U.S. Senate launched a probe of these huge tribal fees, Greenberg Traurig fired Abramoff in 2004, saying that he engaged in “personal transactions” that were “unacceptable to the firm.” These transaction turned out to be $10 million in kickbacks that Abramoff secretly took from Scanlon without telling the the tribes or his firm