Another Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy employee has pleaded guilty to tax evasion as part of the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal.
Environmental and energy policy news site Greenwire has the story (sub required):
Jared Carpenter, CREA’s vice president since 2000, admitted July 6 he failed to pay taxes for three years on about $238,000 worth of salary between 2001 and 2003 — when the group was funded primarily by Abramoff’s Indian tribal clients.
Last month, CREA co-founder Italia Federici pleaded guilty to a similar tax evasion count and for lying to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee about her role as an intermediary between Abramoff and former Interior Deputy Secretary J. Steven Griles (Greenwire, June 8).
