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Burns taps high-powered D.C. lawyer
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| Last Edited | RP Apr 27, 2006 07:55pm |
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| News Date | Friday, April 28, 2006 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Montana Sen. Conrad Burns has retained a lawyer who specializes in white collar crime and congressional investigations, his campaign confirmed Tuesday.
Campaign spokesman Jason Klindt said that Burns has hired Ralph Caccia, a Washington partner with the law firm Powell Goldstein.
Montana Democrats have played up Burns links to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty as part of a federal corruption investigation earlier this year. Abramoff is cooperating with prosecutors investigating influence-peddling on Capitol Hill.
In March, Abramoff told Vanity Fair magazine that his lobbying firm got "every appropriation we wanted" from Burns' Senate committee, adding that his staff members were "as close as they could be" with the Montana Republican's staff. |
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