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Senate panel seeks group's [Americans for Tax Reform] donor records
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 22, 2005 09:42pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
| News Date | Saturday, April 23, 2005 03:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By SHARON THEIMER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee investigating two lobbyists' multimillion-dollar dealings with Indian tribes has subpoenaed records from an anti-tax group headed by a Republican activist.
The Senate Indian Affairs Committee is seeking documents from Americans for Tax Reform as part of its inquiry into allegations that lobbyists Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon defrauded tribal clients of millions of dollars while representing them on casino issues.
ATR, an advocacy group headed by conservative political activist Grover Norquist, says it is refusing to hand over donor records, insisting that its contributors' identities are confidential and that the committee first agree to keep them secret, ATR spokesman Christopher Butler said in a written statement Thursday.
The group wants the committee to go to the tribes to find out whether they donated to the group, Butler said. It has provided records that do not identify donors, he said.
"In the past, ATR's donors have been harassed and abused when their names have been made public, and the organization has no intention of allowing this to happen again," Butler said. |
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