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 James
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20070704
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 I
Lewis "Scooter" Libby
-  Dick
Cheney
-  David
H Safavian - Jack
Abramoff
- J
Steven Griles -  Government
-  Military
-  Law
-  Prison
-  Politics
- "Libby's
sentence not unusually long: Though [Republican President]
Bush calls the 30-month prison term 'excessive,' records show defendants
convicted of similar crimes served jail time." ... "In commuting the sentence
of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, President Bush said that the former [Republican
Dick Cheney] vice presidential aide had suffered enough and that the 30-month
prison term ordered up by a federal judge was "excessive."" ... "But records
show that the Justice Department under the Bush administration frequently
has sought sentences that are as long, or longer, in cases similar to Libby's."
... "Three-fourths of the 198 defendants sentenced in federal court last
year for obstruction of justice — one of four crimes Libby was found guilty
of in March — got some prison time. According to federal data, the average
sentence defendants received for that charge alone was 70 months." ...
"Just last week, the Supreme Court upheld a 33-month prison sentence for
a decorated Army veteran who was convicted of lying to a federal agent
about buying a machine gun. The veteran had a record of public service
— fighting in Vietnam and the Gulf War — and no criminal record. But Justice
Department lawyers argued his prison term should stand because it fit within
the federal sentencing guidelines." ... "Former members of the Bush administration
have been sentenced to jail time in circumstances roughly analogous to
those of Libby." ... "A former federal procurement official, David H. Safavian,
was sentenced to 18 months in October for lying and concealing his dealings
with GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Late last month, a federal judge sentenced
J. Steven Griles, the former second-ranking official in the Interior Department,
to 10 months in prison for obstructing a Senate investigation into his
dealings with Abramoff." (1, 2)
-By Richard B. Schmitt and David G. Savage
-LAtimes
20070626
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J
Steven Griles - Jack
Abramoff
- Dick
Cheney
- Government
-
 Energy
-  Money
- Politics
- "Former
Interior Official Gets Prison." ... "A federal judge
chastised the Interior Department's former No. 2 official and doubled his
proposed prison term to 10 months Tuesday for lying to senators in the
Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal and making excuses about it in court." ...
"J. Steven Griles was the department's deputy secretary and is the highest
administration official sentenced in the probe. He pleaded guilty to obstructing
a congressional investigation, but on Tuesday his lawyers tried to deflect
blame for his faulty testimony." ... "Griles admitted to lying to Senate
investigators about his relationship with Abramoff, the central figure
in a corruption investigation that has led to convictions of a former congressman,
legislative aides, lobbyists and officials in the [Republican President]
Bush administration." ... "Second in rank only to then-Secretary Gale Norton,
Griles effectively was Interior's chief operating officer between 2001
and 2005 and its top representative on [Republican] Vice President Dick
Cheney's energy task force." -By Matt Apuzzo
-AP
20070608
-
Jack
Abramoff
- Italia
Federici - J
Steven Griles - Money
- Politics
- "GOP
Activist Pleads Guilty in Abramoff Scandal." ...
"Prosecutors said [Italia] Federici served as a conduit for information
between [lobbyist Jack] Abramoff and former Deputy Interior Secretary J.
Steven Griles, who pleaded guilty in March to lying to a Senate committee
about his dealings with Abramoff." -CQ.com
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Italia
Federici - Jack
Abramoff
- J
Steven Griles -
 Environmental
- Politics
- "Federici
pleads guilty, will assist in Abramoff probe." ...
"Federici is the second person with ties to Norton to plead guilty in the
Abramoff investigation. Former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles
pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about his relationship to Abramoff
and Federici." ... "Federici is the president of the Council of Republicans
for Environmental Advocacy (CREA), which evolved from a group Federici
and Norton founded in 1997 with tax activist Grover Norquist to push for
Republican environmental goals." -By Mike Soraghan
-TheHill.com
-
Jack
Abramoff
- Italia
Federici - Steven
Griles
- Environmental
- Money
- Politics
- "Republican
figure pleads guilty in Abramoff probe." ... "A Republican
activist [Italia Federici] pleaded guilty on Friday to obstructing Congress
and evading taxes in a deal with prosecutors probing the influence-peddling
scandal involving former lobbyist Jack Abramoff." ... "As head of the Council
of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, Federici, 37, had close ties
to senior Interior Department officials, including former Interior Secretary
Gale Norton. Founded by Federici and Norton in 1997, CREA is a nonprofit
group that touts Republicans' environmental accomplishments and criticizes
established environmental groups like the Sierra Club." ... "According
to the plea agreement, Federici introduced Abramoff to the Interior Department's
No. 2 official, Steven Griles, in March 2001." ... "Federici's involvement
masked the extent of Abramoff's influence over Griles, the agreement says,
allowing the two to discuss how to block casinos that might compete with
those owned by Abramoff clients, among other matters." ... "Griles pleaded
guilty in March to obstructing Congress, becoming the highest-ranking [Republican
President] Bush administration official convicted in the lobbying scandal."
(1, 2)
-By Andy Sullivan -Reuters
20070606
-
Italia
Federici - Jack
Abramoff
- Steven
Griles - Environment
- Money
- Politics
- "Republican
with Abramoff ties to plead guilty." ... "A Republican
activist will plead guilty to obstructing Congress in the influence-peddling
scandal centered around former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, her lawyer said
on Wednesday." ... "According to criminal charges filed by the government,
Federici in 2001 introduced Abramoff to her sometime boyfriend, ex-Deputy
Interior Secretary Steven Griles." ... "Abramoff, currently serving a six-year
prison sentence, is at the center of a lobbying scandal that has resulted
in prison time for several Bush administration officials and one congressman."
... "Over the next several years, Federici served as a go-between for Griles
and Abramoff, the charges say. Abramoff donated roughly $500,000 to her
group during that time." (1, 2)
-By Andy Sullivan -Reuters
via -ABCNEWS.com
20070403
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Italia
Federici - Jack
Abramoff
- J
Steven Griles - Environmental
- Politics
- "Ex-Interior
Secretary's Former Girlfriend Is Latest Target in Abramoff Probe."
... "Italia Federici, the one-time girlfriend of a convicted former senior
official at the Interior Department, is a target of the ongoing federal
influence-peddling investigation into the activities of former lobbyist
Jack Abramoff, according to court documents obtained by Legal Times." ...
""The investigation is focused on the allegedly illegal manner in which
you operated the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy," wrote
Stephanie Evans, a trial attorney in the department's Tax Division. Federici
co-founded CREA, a conservative-leaning environmental-advocacy group, in
1997 with Gale Norton, who became secretary of the Interior Department
in 2001." ... "Federici was central to the charges against J. Steven Griles,
the former deputy secretary of the Interior Department who pleaded guilty
March 23 to misleading Senate investigators about his relationship with
Abramoff, the infamous then-Greenberg Traurig lobbyist who pleaded guilty
to several felonies last year." ... "According to the Jan. 19 target letter
filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, investigators
are looking at whether Federici violated five statutes in connection with
running the group: conspiracy to defraud the United States, tax evasion,
impeding the Internal Revenue Service, and obstructing proceedings and
making false statements before the Senate." ... "Federal officials also
informed Federici that they believe she "may have assisted others in depriving
the American Public of honest services of at least one administration official,"
the letter states." -By Emma Schwartz
-LegalTimes.com via -Law.com
20070324
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J
Steven Griles - Jack
Abramoff
- Italia
Federici - Money
- Government
- Environmental
- Energy
- Companies
- Politics
- Law
- "Ex-Official
At Interior Hid His Ties To Abramoff: Griles Pleads
Guilty To Lying to Senate." ... "The former No. 2 official in the Interior
Department yesterday admitted lying to the Senate about his relationship
with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who gained the official's intervention
at the agency for his Indian tribal clients." ... "J. Steven Griles pleaded
guilty in U.S. District Court to a felony for making false statements in
testimony before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee in November 2005 and
in an earlier interview with panel investigators. He is the 10th person
-- and the second high-level [Republican President] Bush administration
official -- to face criminal charges in the continuing Justice Department
investigation into Abramoff's lobbying activities." ... "Griles, 59, a
gregarious former mining lobbyist, drew the wrath of environmentalists
and his department's inspector general during a stormy four-year tenure
at Interior." ... "Griles told the Senate panel and its investigators that
his relationship with Abramoff was no different from that with any lobbyist.
Griles's then-girlfriend, however, had introduced him to the lobbyist and
then acted as a go-between. The woman, Italia Federici -- identified as
"Person A" in court papers -- ran an advocacy group to which Abramoff and
his clients donated $500,000." ... ""Abramoff occasionally sought and received
-- both directly and through Person A -- defendant James Steven Griles'
advice and intervention on issues within DOI that directly affected Abramoff
and his clients," said the government's charging document. Griles was not
accused of accepting anything of value in exchange." ... "Griles was a
controversial political appointee from the start of his tenure at Interior
under then-Secretary Gale A. Norton. Environmentalists and the department's
inspector general faulted him for keeping ties to energy and mining companies
that were once his lobbying clients." (1, 2)
-By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi
-WashingtonPost
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