Delaware Lifeguard Joined Abramoff Tribal Affairs Scheme as a "Think Tank"

Senators Hear of a Wink-Wink Lobbyist Move

By ANNE E. KORNBLUT
Published: June 23, 2005
WASHINGTON, June 22 -

David Grosh was living the mellow life of an off-season lifeguard in Rehoboth Beach, Del., when his childhood friend Michael Scanlon called from Washington in 2001 with a proposition.

"Want to be head of an international corporation?" Mr. Grosh said Mr. Scanlon asked him, almost in jest.

"I was like, sure," Mr. Grosh said.

Collecting less than $2,500, he became director of the American International Center, which used his rental beach house as its official address. "I was not really taking it seriously."

Four years later, Mr. Grosh, 36, wearing jeans and sideburns, recounted that tale before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, as part of its inquiry into Jack Abramoff, the high-rolling Republican lobbyist.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/23/politics/23indian.html?

Does he know JimmyJeff? Did this just get interesting?

is well known for it's gay community. Hmmm.......

Phonebook results for david grosh +delaware
David M Grosh, (302) 227-3315, 16 Burton Ct, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971

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It helped, too, that there were several conduits the money could pass through. The most colorful, and mysterious, of these was Scanlon's think tank, the American International Center, into which the tribes paid millions of dollars. The prestige of real think tanks in Washington, quasi-academic research groups like the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, has greatly increased the popularity of the term. Almost anything can be called a think tank nowadays. Scanlon started his in 2001. It's set up in a large house he bought (for $4.2 million, according to the Post) two blocks from the ocean, at the resort community of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. A reporter for National Journal visited its website shortly before it was taken down. The AIC, said the website, had the "global minded purpose of enhancing the methods of empowerment for territories, commonwealths, and sovereign nations in possession of and within the United States." Further, it sought "to expand the parameters of international discourse in an effort to leverage the combined power of world intellect." Living in the beach house were the two resident scholars: David Grosh had been named Rehoboth's "lifeguard of the year" in 1995, and Brian Mann, the Post reported, is a former yoga instructor.

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