Washington Post: The airfare to London and Scotland in 2000 for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was charged to an American Express card issued to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist at the center of a federal criminal and tax probe, according to two sources who know Abramoff's credit card account number and to a copy of a travel invoice displaying that number.... House ethics rules bar lawmakers from accepting travel and related expenses from registered lobbyists. ...read on
By John Amato
— April 22, 2005