You’ve probably already seen this article in today’s New York Times on Justice Department interest in an offer Jack Abramoff apparently made to President Omar Bongo of Gabon to set up a meeting with President Bush for the sum of $9 million.
This makes me curious again to know more about the foreign lobbying and foreign business dimensions of Abramoff’s work.
For instance, documentary evidence made available to us shows that in the summer of 2004 (after the scandal phase of Abramoff’s career was well underway), he was working with Marina Nevskaya and her company Naftasib to secure oil exploration and drilling concessions from The National Oil Company of Liberia.
Abramoff spokesman Andrew Blum had no comment when asked today about the Abramoff-Nevskaya-Liberia dealings.
Nevskaya and Naftasib, you may remember, are the ones that underwrote the DeLay/Abramoff ‘fact-finding’ trip to Moscow in 1997.
Anyone know more about this Liberian oil exploration angle to the Abramoff story? I’m all ears.
