Russian influence over GOP goes back as far as Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff
I am so glad this is all coming out now. You can't fix corruption until it is brought out into the bright light of day.
This article is from 2005
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During its five-year existence, the U.S. Family Network raised $2.5 million but kept its donor list secret. The list, obtained by The Washington Post, shows that $1 million of its revenue came in a single 1998 check from a now-defunct London law firm whose former partners would not identify the money's origins.
Two former associates of Edwin A. Buckham, the congressman's former chief of staff and the organizer of the U.S. Family Network, said Buckham told them the funds came from Russian oil and gas executives. Abramoff had been working closely with two such Russian energy executives on their Washington agenda, and the lobbyist and Buckham had helped organize a 1997 Moscow visit by DeLay (R-Tex.).
The former president of the U.S. Family Network said Buckham told him that Russians contributed $1 million to the group in 1998 specifically to influence DeLay's vote on legislation the International Monetary Fund needed to finance a bailout of the collapsing Russian economy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001480.html
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these ties go wayyy back, and here's a solid mention of one that's at least 12 years old. How about that. And, of course, the $$ movement is to the sleaziest of the sleazy.
Many thanks, sending this around!!
hmmm...this is before putin's rise...wonder if Semyon Mogilevich had a hand in this...?
