Maryland's Gov. and Abramoff

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.grassroots04jan04,1,5369645.story?coll=bal-home-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

Abramoff used firm founded by Ehrlich aide

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The charging document says Abramoff "established a business called GrassRoots Interactive" in May 2003. State business and financial disclosure records show that Ehrlich aide Edward B. Miller was the sole owner of Grassroots from the time he founded it in May 2003 with a $10,000 personal investment until he sold it in September of that year, recouping his initial stake.

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"There's nothing there," Ehrlich said in a brief interview early yesterday, before the charging document was widely available. The governor's office declined to revise his statement later in the day.

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Miller was an attorney with the Baltimore firm Piper Rudnik LLP at the time and had previously worked as a political pollster in Washington. Before going to work for the state, Miller sold Grassroots to Samuel Hook, who was an Abramoff associate at his law firm at the time, Greenberg Traurig.
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and then there is that other problem for the Gov. - his sidekick