Bob Ney: An Abramoff - Santorum connection

REP. NEY LINKED TO ABRAMOFF
Sunday, January 08, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.com

Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, is likely to be indicted in an ongoing public corruption scandal, according to a fellow Republican congressman, Jim McCrery of Louisiana. Ney is linked by prosecutors to Jack Abramoff, a former lobbyist who pleaded guilty to charges this week that include mail fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials. He also is linked to Abramoff's associate, Michael Scanlon, who pleaded guilty in November to conspiring to bribe a member of Congress and other public officials. "He'll probably be indicted," McCrery speculated Friday. Ney's spokesman Brian Walsh said Ney maintains that he has done "absolutely nothing wrong" and that prosecutors have not told him that he is a target of the investigation.

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U.S. Rep. Bob Ney's re-election campaign was fined $2,000 Thursday for failing to properly record two payments last November totaling more than $83,000.
An analysis of Federal Election Commission documents by The Associated Press shows the Ney campaign failed for six months to report two wire transfers to Pittsburgh political consulting firm Brabender Cox - one for nearly $48,000 and one for $35,000.

The FEC, which confirmed the discrepancy, did not believe the error was intentional, spokeswoman Kelly Huff said.

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During his past two campaigns, rising Republican star Sen. Rick Santorum paid $10 million to a Pittsburgh advertising firm to help him win office. In the years between the campaigns, the company paid the senator's wife, Karen Santorum - now a full-time mother home-schooling six kids - to work as a consultant, according to campaign finance records and financial disclosure forms.

The company that hired Karen Santorum is BrabenderCox, a political advertising firm run by GOP media guru John Brabender, credited with helping craft Santorum's 1994 upset win against Sen. Harris Wofford and 2000 defeat of Democratic Rep. Ron Klink.

Federal Election Commission records reviewed by UPI show Santorum's campaign making payments to BrabenderCox totaling nearly $4 million and $6 million in the 1994 and 2000 elections for media work. Most contracts allow political ad firms to keep around 15 percent of the payments.



That 1994 win over Wofford was a boon to BrabenderCox also, catapulting it from a small Pittsburgh ad agency to a major GOP political consulting firm with clients like New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and congressional candidates from across the country.

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