And this is how low they stoop ....
WASHINGTON - Corruption reached all the way to the grave Nov. 17 as a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing revealed that lobbyist Jack Abramoff tried to get the Tigua of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo to pay for lobbying with life insurance policies on tribal elders.
The committee referred to the proposal as the Elderly Legacy Program. Upon the death of the elders, the policies would pay out to the school he founded, Eshkol Academy, and to the firm he worked for, according to documents released by the committee. The pueblo council agreed to it at first, said Lieutenant Governor Carlos Hisa. ''It was approved, initially ... and then we just decided not to move forward on it.'' After talking it over, council members decided it just wasn't right, he added.
Committee members tried to express themselves on this latest alleged outrage in a lengthy train of them from Abramoff and his colleague in communications, Michael Scanlon. But they generally fell short. Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, said, ''I don't believe we've had such a sad and sickening set of circumstances'' in his time on the committee. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., left it at wondering whether they sleep at night.
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